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Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 08: Leisure and sport in the local community
Section 3: Which leisure facilities should be provided for the local community? (3)
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Objectives |
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- that public spending is limited and that hard choices need to be made when dealing with competing claims for public money
- to work together in groups to solve problems (NSE)
- to acknowledge and build on the views of others (NSE)
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Activities |
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Children: |
- Pupils could investigate how much their local authority spent on parks and leisure facilities in the last financial year, compared with other spending. They could present their findings in different forms, eg pie charts, graphs.
- In groups, pupils could imagine that they are councillors on the local Parks and Leisure Committee. The council has been told to halve its spending on leisure facilities in the coming year. The groups need to decide, in broad terms, which of the facilities most frequently used by pupils (see first activity) should be closed down, which should be cut back and which should not be touched at all. An alternative exercise could be undertaken on the basis that the council budget for leisure is being doubled. Each group explains its spending priorities, and the class votes on which spending plan it prefers.
- As a class, explore the reasons behind pupils' decisions to favour one activity over another. List the kinds of reasons they suggest, eg popularity with a majority, a valuable and unique asset to the community.
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- understand that leisure provision is just one of many categories of expenditure for local councils; identify criteria which can be used to decide between competing claims on public money
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Points to note |
- The reasons, eg popularity with a large number of voters, preservation of a valuable asset, are much more important than the decisions themselves.
- Link with English: En1, 1a-g, 2b-f, 3a-e.
- Link with NSE: year 7 S&L13, year 8 S&L10, year 9 S&L10.
- Link with NSE: year 7 S&L14, year 8 S&L11, year 9 S&L9.
- Information about council spending plans is available from the council website.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
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