ENTERPRISE!

OUR HIGH STREET

Activity 1

The Post Office

Today (in 2010) a small greetings card weighing less than 100g costs 41p to send first class and 32p to send second class to someone else in the UK

Posting a Greetings Card1. If you have a card to send to a friend you must first write their name and address on it and then go

to the Post Office to buy your stamp. The stamp is basically a ‘receipt’ to prove that you have paid the postage.

2. Once your card has been stamped you can post it in the letter box.3. Post – all the cards and letters in the letter box - is collected from the letter box by the post man 4. The post is taken in a van to the main sorting office. This is a building where millions of letters are

sorted every day. Post for different places are collected together and then sent to local sorting offices and then on to the local post office where your friend lives.

5. The post is then sorted into "runs" around the area where your friend lives. A “run” is a number of roads, enough for a post man to deliver the mail.

6. Finally, the postman delivers your card to your friend!

Your High Street!

• You are now going to draw your own High Street!

• Discuss in your teams which shops you would like to include in your High Street e.g. Newsagent, Grocers, Post Office

• Decide who is going to draw which shop and then connect these to make ‘your’ High Street!

Summary • High Streets contain all sorts of shops which sell us things that

we need

• The Post Office is a special shop which sells postage stamps enabling us to send cards to our friends

• We are now going to learn more about what shops sell and where the money comes from and where it goes!

Activity 2

What do we buy?

What did we do before money?

How Much do Things Cost?

How Much do Things Cost?

65p

35p

£1.50 £1.00

£1.50

£3.50

£2.50

£2.00

How much is your shopping basket?

£1.30

£1.00

£1.50

How much is our change?

• You have a £20 note!

• What can you buy?

• How much change would you have?

Money and Tax!

Sarah and Joyce work in the Post Office

Money and Tax!

Summary

• Shops on the High Street sell us things that we need

• We have to work make decisions about what we buy from shops.

• People like Sarah work in those shops and are paid wages.

• Some of the money goes in taxation so the Government can build and run schools and hospitals

£2.50

Word Search!

OUR SHOP

Activity 3

TEAM WORK•Managing Director•Financial Advisor•Research and Development Officer•Marketing Director•Head of Human Resources (HR)•Product Designer

COST

Materials: Cards & Envelopes £2.50 per tableGlitter & stickers: £1.50 per tableOther arts materials: £1 per table

How to Make a Card?

VIDEOS!

Making a card Sample Cards

Design your Cards

• Start to design your cards

• Discuss theme/size/different costs of the cards

• You will be able to make two cards each

Now Make Your Cards!

• Remember to use your designs

• You will be able to make two cards each

• Remember to practice before sticking anything down!