Citizenship: How do people belong to a community and earn money?
Exploring communities, belonging and money through learning about the groups people belong to, the jobs people do and where money comes from.
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Citizenship: How do people belong to a community and earn money?
Important
These lessons have been refreshed to keep the content current and relevant. They will be fully reviewed and updated when the new National Curriculum is published in 2027.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify some of the groups and communities they belong to and recognise that people can belong to more than one community.
- Recognise that some groups or communities are chosen and some are not.
- Give examples of how people contribute to a community and compare different ways people contribute.
- Name jobs people do in the local and wider community and describe how they help people or communities.
- Explain why jobs are important and what might happen if nobody did them.
- Identify what money is used for and explain how it is used to buy goods and services.
- Identify and compare different ways adults get money, recognising that adults do not all get money in the same way.
Suggested prior learning
Citizenship: How can I help others and the environment?
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Where do we belong?
Lesson 2: How can different people contribute to my community?
Lesson 3: What jobs do people do in our local community?
Lesson 5: What is money?
Lesson 6 : Where does money come from?
Key skills
Key skills
Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
Full equipment list for the subject
No equipment added for this unit.
This unit may use classroom resources only
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – RSE & PSHE Y2: Citizenship: How do people belong to a community and earn money?
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit 'How do people belong to a community…
Vocabulary display– RSE & PSHE Y2: Citizenship: How do people belong to a community and earn money?
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit ‘'How do people belong to a community and earn money?'
Cross-curricular opportunities
English: Spoken language
British values: Democracy, Mutual respect and Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.