Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms. Chorekdjian.

I'm so excited to be learning with you today.

I'll be helping you with your geography lesson.

We are going to have such a great time learning together in this lesson.

Let's start our learning journey.

Welcome to today's lesson from our local area unit called Where Do We Go To School? This lesson is called Jobs In Our School.

Today, you'll be learning about important people in your school that help you to learn by making the school run smoothly.

You'll be making a list of these important people and you'll be interviewing some of them to find out more about their job.

I've used examples of people from my school to help you think about your own school.

Some of the learning is brand new, but I'm here to help you.

This links back to previous learning you might have done exploring your school as a special place, so now it's time to focus on the special people in the school.

I'm really excited to get started.

I hope you are too.

The key words we'll be using today are job, interview, and questions, and we'll be learning more about them throughout our lesson.

Let's do my turn, your turn.

Job.

Job.

Interview.

Interview.

Questions.

Questions.

Well done.

I want you to be using these keywords throughout our lesson as well.

Every time you or your partner uses a keyword, I want you to give them a thumbs up, like this.

These are the learning cycles that we will be working through together in today's lesson.

First, we'll be looking at what the jobs are in our school, then we'll be learning about how interviews help us find out about jobs, and finally, we will be learning about how we can record interview answers.

I'm really excited about this lesson.

Let's get started.

Today, we'll be preparing to ask people in our school about their jobs, but before we do that, we've got to find out what a job is.

A job is regular work, which is usually paid, but some people who work in schools are volunteers.

This means they choose to work without getting paid.

They work just as hard as people who do get paid.

Everyone who works in a school does it because they want to help you with your learning.

There are many different jobs.

I'm going to show you some pictures of people doing different jobs.

Can you guess what these jobs are? Have a think about these jobs and see if you can name them.

Pause the video here and discuss this as a class.

What sort of things did you talk about? Here are the names of some of the jobs, we have a teacher, a doctor or a nurse, a scientist, police officers, a beautician, and an electrician.

Did you guess these jobs correctly? Well done.

Give yourselves a thumbs up.

There are many different jobs.

Here are some other examples of jobs.

It's hard to name all the jobs in the world, but here are just a few.

A banker, an engineer, a personal trainer, a cleaner, a cook, a paramedic, and a receptionist.

These are just to name a few.

There are so many other jobs.

Jobs can be done by either men or women and people of all different backgrounds and abilities.

Can you think of any more jobs? You can pause the video and add some more ideas that you've discussed as a class.

Well done.

I'm sure you talked about so many different jobs.

It's time to have a little check now.

Think about this statement carefully and choose an answer which would complete it.

A job is A, something you do for free, B, somewhere you go to have fun, C, regular paid work, or D, somewhere you play.

What do you think? Pause the video and have a go at answering this question.

Did you answer C? Well done.

Let's complete this sentence together.

A job is regular paid work.

Well done if you got it right.

You can give yourselves a thumbs up.

A job could be something that you do for free.

Remember, we talked about people who volunteer.

People could have fun doing their job.

We want to make sure that we enjoy the jobs that we do, and you could work somewhere where you play, but the general answer about what a job is, it's somewhere that you go for regular paid work.

Think about the jobs in a primary school.

There's the teacher or teachers, a cook, the head teacher, a receptionist or someone that works in the office, the cleaners, teaching assistants, lunchtime supervisors to help you with having your food safely at lunchtime, and then someone to help you with crossing the road, so they're monitoring, crossing patrol outside your school.

These are just a few examples of the jobs in a school.

Let's think about these questions.

Why are these jobs important and what other jobs are there around school? So let's think about the teacher, the first one as an example.

That job is important because they're the main person that teaches you your learning while you're in school.

Let's think about the cleaner.

The cleaner's got to clean the tables and the floors and all the surfaces to make sure that you don't get sick while you're in school.

So all jobs in a school are important.

Think about them and think about if there are any other jobs around school that I've missed off.

Pause the video now.

Great, I'm sure you thought of lots more jobs around school, and they're all important, because like I said, they help you learn while you're in school.

Earlier, I said that teachers help you learn by teaching you.

The crossing patrol person will help you cross the road safely.

The cleaner keeps your learning areas tidy and clean.

And the head teacher does all the things in the background to make sure that your day at school runs smoothly.

All of these jobs are there for a reason.

These jobs are all important because they help the school run smoothly.

All these special people help you learn and support you with your education.

There are other jobs in school that are voluntary.

The people who do them don't get paid.

These jobs are just as important.

Here are some examples of them.

Reading with children.

These people give up their time for free to help you improve your reading.

Other people give up their time to help you on a school visit.

They'll support you to make sure that you're safe.

It's now time for our first task.

I want you to write a list of all the jobs in our school, then write the names of the people who do them.

If you know their names, don't worry if you don't.

You can look at the school website to help you in case you've missed someone.

Pause the video and have a go at task one.

Well done.

Did you write some of the jobs in your school? I wrote down head teacher, the cook, and a teacher, and the names of those people are Ms. Patel, Mr. David, and Mrs. Brown.

I'm sure you wrote down the jobs and names of lots of people who work in your school.

Well done for completing your first task.

Let's continue with today's learning.

Now, we're going to think about how interviews can help us find out about jobs.

An interview means talking to people to gather information.

Interviews are a good way of finding out information from people by asking them questions.

Questions includes words like who, what, when, where, why, and how.

This is a picture of someone interviewing another person on the radio.

They're trying to ask them questions to find out information.

Let's have another little check here.

Think about this question.

How can interviews help us find out about jobs? A, they are a way of making friends.

B, they're a good way of finding out information from people.

Or C, they're useful for writing a story.

Which answer do you think is correct? Pause the video here and have a go at this question.

The correct answer is B.

Interviews are a good way of finding out information from people.

Well done, everyone.

Give yourselves a thumbs up.

Now, let's think about interview planning.

Why do you think we need to plan an interview? Have a discussion about this as a class.

Think about this question.

Why do we need to plan for an interview? We need to plan interviews to make sure we ask the right questions.

We need to also make sure that the interview takes place at a good time for everyone so that teachers or whoever you might interview are not feeling rushed and they've got enough time to sit down and answer your questions properly.

These are some questions we can ask.

What is your job? What is your favourite part? When did you start? Who do you work with? Where do you do most of your work? Why did you want to do this job? Can you think of any more? I'm going to ask you to pause the video in just a minute.

Interviews can help us find out about jobs.

These are the questions that we can ask in an interview.

So we've talked about this before, what is your job? What is your favourite part? When did you start? Who do you work with? Where do you do most of your work? Why do you want to do this job? Think about some more questions that you can ask someone.

Pause the video and write them all down.

Great.

I'm sure you thought about lots of questions you could ask someone to find out more information about their job.

Well done.

It's now time for task B.

Choose someone you'd like to interview.

It can be someone you wrote down in task A or different people.

Write down all the questions you would like to ask them.

You can use these sentence stems to help you.

I would like to interview.

The questions I will ask are, then write all the questions you will ask them.

Pause the video and have a go at task B.

Well done for completing that task.

Here's an example of my learning.

I chose Ms. Patel to interview, and the questions I wanted to ask her are what is your job? When did you start? Why did you want to do this job? What is your favourite part of the job? Good work, everyone.

Now, it's time to move on to the final part of our lesson today.

We are going to think about how we can record interview answers.

It's helpful to record answers in an interview.

Why do you think this could be? This is because it helps us remember what the person being interviewed said.

We want to make sure we remember all the important answers they give us because we want to find out about what they think.

So we don't forget, we need the answers to be recorded.

So let's have another little check here.

This is a true or false question, so you have to think carefully about this statement to see if it is true or not.

We need to record answers in an interview.

What do you think, is that true or false? Pause the video now and answer the question.

It's true, we do need to record answers in an interview.

Well done if you got it right.

Give yourselves a thumbs up.

Now, let's think about why it's true and justifying our answer.

Which of these reasons supports why this statement is true? A, so we know who said what.

Or B, to remember what the person being interviewed said.

Pause the video and think about justifying your answer.

Did you say B? That's right.

We need to record answers in an interview to remember what the person being interviewed said.

Good job.

Give yourselves another thumbs up.

We can record answers by using an iPad to video the interview, or by writing it down and making notes of the key information.

It's now time for your final task of the lesson that links together all of your learning.

Your task is to interview someone in your school about their job, and to record their answers using the iPad or by taking notes.

Think about the most important information you want to find out about their job.

Pause the video and complete task C.

Here's my task C.

I've chosen to interview Ms. Patel.

I asked her what her job is.

She's the head teacher at my school.

I asked her when she started her job.

She started 20 years ago.

She said she wanted to do this job because she wanted to help children learn, and the favourite parts of her job is working with lots of different people.

I was able to find out about someone's job by asking them questions in an interview just like you have done today too, so well done.

I hope you found out some really interesting things about the people who work in your school and who help you with your learning.

We've now come to the end of our lesson, so let's go through a summary of the learning that we've completed together today.

We've learned that a job is regular paid work.

We've also learned that an interview means talking to people and asking them questions to gather information.

We need to plan interview questions to make sure we can ask the right questions, and we need to record answers to help us remember what the person being interviewed said.

You've been fantastic today.

Give yourselves one last thumbs up, and well done for joining me today and sharing your learning with me.

See you next time for more geography lessons soon.

Bye.