What is a community?
Communities are made up of people who are connected in some way. They might share common interests and values.
The children came up with a list of people who make up our community:
- families
- friends
- police
- teachers
- shop owners
- doctors
- neighbours
- church
We are connected to these people in lots of different ways and they all play a part in making our community a happy and healthy place to achieve and believe.
We thought about our classroom community and how we’re connected to one another. To show our community and its importance, children passed the string to the next person, whilst offering some words of appreciation, encouragement or support.
The web shows our classroom community. If we all show care and support, it will be strong.
We then dropped the string…
When people stop caring and supporting, the community will start to have problems.
What if we cared MORE not less?
Help at home by discussing this question with your child. You could use these stem sentences to help:
- To support my family community at home, I could…
- To care for my school community, I could…
- To help my local community, I could…