People who help us
BUILD Humanities · Autumn 1 · Week 2 · 40 minutes
Today at a Glance
◆ Supported
Use the picture cards. Point to one helper. Match them to the place card that fits.
▲ Standard
Sort six helper cards into the three groups. Say the reason for one group out loud.
★ Stretch
Sort all nine cards. Pick one helper. Say what would go wrong if they were not there.
Teacher Print Tools — Week 2
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Arrival Task – What we already know about helpers
Last week we said who is special to us. This week we look at people who help everyone.
A helper does a job for other people. They do not have to know you.
Some helpers keep us safe. Some keep us well. Some keep things running.
You can point to a helper on a card. You do not have to say who has helped you.
A helper can be a person in a shop. A helper can be a bus driver. Both do a job for others.
Two people can pick the same helper. Their reasons can be different. Both are right.
Arrival decision: Pick the picture cards, or pick a helper you know about. Both are full answers. You can change your mind later. Nobody will ask which one you picked.
Before we start, look at the nine cards on your table. Each card shows one helper at work. There is a nurse, a bus driver, a crossing patrol, a shop worker, a bin crew, a firefighter, a librarian, a dentist and a post worker. Everyone in this room can work with these cards from start to end.
Look at one card now. Say the job out loud, or point to it. That is all you need to do to begin.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Starter: Why is one helper not enough?
Here are two answers about the same street.
Answer A: “The bus driver helps.”
Answer B: “The bus driver helps. The nurse helps. The bin crew helps. They all do different jobs.”
Answer B tells you more than Answer A. Answer A names one helper. Answer B names three. And it says they do different jobs. That is the part we practise today.
The need for this lesson is the word different. Lots of people help. They do not all help in the same way. By the end you will be able to sort them into groups and say why.
Try it in your head: think of a shop. Who works there? Now think of a bus. Who works there? Two helpers. Two places. Two jobs. That is a sort already.
Some helpers you see every day. Some you only see when something goes wrong. Both count. A firefighter is still a helper on a day with no fire.
A helper is not just a person in a uniform. The person who sweeps the leaves helps too. So does the person at the till. If they do a job for other people, they belong in this lesson.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
I Do: Three groups of helpers
The diagram above has three boxes. The first box is keeps us safe. The middle box is keeps us well. The last box is keeps things going.
A helper goes in the box that fits their job best. The firefighter keeps us safe. The nurse keeps us well. The bus driver keeps things going.
Notice what the boxes do not mean. They do not say who is most important. Every box matters. A town with no bin crew would be in trouble fast.
Watch me do it: I take the crossing patrol card. What is their job? They stop the cars. Why? So we can cross. That keeps us safe. So I put the card in the first box. I say the job first. Then I pick the box.
Now watch one more: the dentist. Their job is to check our teeth. That keeps us well. Middle box. Same steps. Job first. Then the box.
So one box can hold lots of helpers. Each one still needs its own job said out loud. That is why the next diagram links a helper to a place and to a job.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
We Do: Sort the cards. Match the helper to the place.
Card 1: the nurse. Where do you find them? What do they do?
Card 2: the bin crew. Where do you find them? What do they do?
Card 3: the librarian. Where do you find them? What do they do?
Sort first: put the three cards into the three boxes on your table. Then match each helper to a place card: the clinic, the street, the library. Everyone sorts at the same time. Then we check together.
Evidence check
Card 2 can go in two boxes. The bin crew keep things going. They also keep us well, because rubbish makes people ill. When we check, we ask for the reason. We do not check the box. A reason makes a sort right.
After the sort, one person from each table says one match out loud. We are listening for a place and a job. If two tables sorted a card into different boxes and both gave a reason, both stay up.
Changing a card after you hear someone else is allowed. It is a good sign. Move your card and say what changed it.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
I Do: Helper, place, job: the three-link chain
The chain above has three boxes: helper, then place, then job. The arrows show the order. The last box is the job, and it is the one most often missed.
Look at the picture. The nurse. Then: the clinic. Then: checks we are well. That is a full chain. You can hear all three links.
Here is one that is not complete: the nurse, then the clinic. That stops at the middle box. It says where. It never says what they do for us.
Fixing it together: add the last link. The clinic, where they check we are well. The words where they often start the third box.
A chain with all three links matches the helper to the place and to the job. That is what your record will show.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
We Do: Match the missing link together
◆ Supported
Point to the place card that matches the helper. Then choose the job card that fits.
▲ Standard
Say all three links for the bus driver, in order.
★ Stretch
Give a second job for the same helper. Say which one matters more to you.
We build one chain on the board first. Nobody writes yet. Everyone puts the middle box on a whiteboard. Then we show them all at once. Then we agree the job.
The helper for this chain is the bus driver. The first box is filled in. Your job is to match the place. Where do you find a bus driver? Write one place, not a describing word.
When we show, we will have lots of places. We keep the ones that name a real place. We sort the others to one side. They are not wrong. But a describing word cannot lead to a job.
Then, together, we add the third box and read the whole chain from left to right.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Independent Work — Your record: people who help us
Make one record. You may use the picture cards, or helpers you know about, or both. All three are complete answers.
◆ Supported
One helper. Sort them into a group, then match the place card and the job card. An adult may scribe your exact words, and the words stay yours. Point to the group first, then the place.
▲ Standard
Three helpers. For each one, write the three links: who they are, where they work, and what they do for us. Use a separate row for each helper so the links stay in order.
★ Stretch
Three helpers from three different groups. For one of them, say what would go wrong if they were not there. A job that is easy to forget is still a real job.
Check yourself: does every helper you named have a place next to them?
Check yourself: is the job about something the helper does for other people?
Check yourself: would someone new to this town get your chain?
Check yourself: did you sort each helper into one of the three groups?
Finished early? Take one chain. Add a second job for that helper. Then say which job people would miss first. Mark it.
If you are stuck on the third box, say the place out loud and then add the words where they. Whatever comes next is usually the job.
You may not want to write about a real person. That is fine. The cards are a full answer. Nobody will ask you why.
Your record is done when each helper has a place and a job. Read one of them out loud to yourself. Check it makes sense.
⏸ Pens down — quick partner check!
Half way through: stop, swap with a partner, and check one thing on the list above together. Then carry on.
WAGOLL — what a good one looks like
Here is a finished one: the bin crew. They work on the street. They take the rubbish away, so the town stays clean. Three links. One sentence. And someone who has never been here gets it.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Lesson
🚪 SPACE
Space means you get room to join in.
SPACE stays available.
📣 VOICE
Voice means you get to say it.
VOICE is received.
👥 AUDIENCE
Audience means someone really listens.
AUDIENCE names back exactly.
⭐ INFLUENCE
Influence means something changes because of what you said.
INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.
Exit Ticket — Audience receives; influence changes something
Read one chain to a partner or to an adult. The listener says back the job they heard, in their own words.
Did the listener hear a different job? Then change one word in your chain. Make it say what you meant. That change is your influence. It belongs to you, not to them.
Did the listener hear just what you meant? Write that down too. A chain that already works is worth noting. It needed no change.
Next week we look at the places these helpers work in. Keep your record. It will help you then.
Nothing goes outside this room unless you say so. Your record stays in your folder. You decide if it goes on the wall.
✅ Complete
Hand in your record and tick the learner confirmation on your sheet. That is the lesson done.
SPACE stays available. VOICE is received. AUDIENCE names back exactly. INFLUENCE changes one real next action.