For children at sgoil àraich and P1

In Gaelic, talk about people who help us in our local community (key workers). Think of who helps us, how they help, places of work, what key items or tools are needed to do their job.

Things to do together

• Talk about different jobs that people who help us do
  • people who help us feel better (doctors/nurses/paramedics/dentists)
  • people who help keep us safe (firefighters/police)
  • people who help us in our everyday lives (post workers, cleaners, shop workers, teachers).
• Draw a picture of someone who helps us. Remember to draw things they need to do in their job. If appropriate, your child may write a few sentences about their drawing.
• Play ‘Who am I?’ Ask your child to guess which occupation you are talking about’ For example, ‘I like animals, I help your pet when they are sick or hurt, who am I?’ (vet)
• Resources that might help with this activity - Go! Gaelic - Community

For children at P2/P3/P4

Look outside, either from a door, a window or garden area. Make a list of all the natural and built features you can see that are immediately around where you live. For example, other houses or buildings, roads, fields, trees, post boxes, bus stops.

Imagine flying over the area in which you live. Draw and colour a simple ‘sketch map’ of the area around the outside of your house. Try to include all the features you noticed when you looked outside.

Try to remember the following when drawing your map:

• You can use drawings, symbols, letters, words or shapes to show where features are on your map.
• You can choose to include a simple key to show what your symbols, shapes and letters mean.
• You could name the streets and some buildings on your map.

For children at P5/P6/P7

Imagine flying over the area in which you live. Draw and colour a ‘sketch map’ of the area around the outside of your house. Try to include all the features you notice when you look outside or go for a walk.

Try to remember the following when drawing your map:

• You can use drawings, symbols, letters, words or shapes to show where features are on your map.
• Include a key to show what your symbols, shapes and letters mean.
• Name the local streets and buildings on your map.
• Can you work out where north, south, east and west are from your home? Draw a compass on your map to show these directions.
• Here’s a clue to help you find out where the compass points are on your map! In the evening, look to where the sun goes down. The sun sets in the west.

For young people at S1/S2/S3

Your local council is looking for ways to encourage people to be more mindful of the environment when dealing with household waste. Currently, there is no requirement for households to recycle their waste, but this is going to change later in the year. There have been recent problems in the area with fly tipping and pollution in local rivers. You are asked to help the local community action group to make people aware of the extent of fly tipping and pollution in rivers in your area.

• In Gaelic, design an attractive, annotated poster, leaflet or content for a website for your local community. This should outline the benefits of recycling household waste and how people can manage this on a day-to-day basis.
• In your poster, leaflet or information for the community website, highlight some of the current problems in your area with pollution, rubbish and unclean rivers. Give specific examples of how recycling will help to reduce these issues so that people in the area will take the idea of recycling more seriously.