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Planning for the future

Understand how a census helps governments plan for schools, hospitals, housing, and more. Engage in activities and discussions to learn about population growth and future planning at different educational stages.

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Planning for the future

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  1. Planning for the future KeyStage 1 KeyStage 2 The population of our country grows and changes over the years. How does our government know the facts and numbers to help them plan for the future? The government uses information from the census to plan for things such as schools, hospitals and housing.

  2. Planning for the future We’re planning our new town. School Park Doctor’s Surgery College Bus Station Railway Station Hospital Offices ChildcareCentre Homes Homes Homes

  3. Planning for the future What should we think about in our planning for our new town? Why are these important? Homes School Childcare centres Doctors’ surgeries Hospital Station Buses Roads

  4. Planning for the future Our task: We’re going to create lovely artworks of our own brand new town.

  5. Planning for the future KeyStage 1 (Key Stage 1) Our next task: Planning our class trip One group will go to the theatre. One group will go to a museum. One group will go to a theme park.

  6. Planning for the future How will we gather this information? How will this information help us plan? How many children are going to each trip. How many tickets to buy for the museum/theatre/theme park. How many lunches to prepare. Arranging our transport.

  7. Planning for the future KeyStage 2 (Key Stage 2) Our next task: It is 10 years after our townwas built. We want to find out what to plan for our town’s future. So we’re going to hold a census! We need to think about: What questions will we ask? What data do we want to gather? How will we use this to help planning?

  8. Planning for the future Our questions, and why we need the information which the answers will give us: How many people live in the town? We need this information to plan services, such as hospitals, schools, etc. How many people live in each flat/house? We need this information to help plan the town’sfuture housing. Why do we need to know people’s ages? We need this information to plan for schools, healthand future housing needs. Why do we need to know how people travelto school and work? We need this information to help with transport planning.

  9. Planning for the future Year 6 Let’s look at how our town’s population has grown over the course of 10 years. Population of our new town at the beginning.

  10. Planning for the future Population of children aged up to 7 years in our new town.

  11. Planning for the future This bar chart shows us the population of children aged up to 7 in our town at the beginning and ten years later. We found this information out after carrying out a census.

  12. Planning for the future The school in our local town is a two-form entry. This means that there are up to 30 children in each class, and up to 60 children in each year group. The results of our census show us that there are over 270 children aged up to 3 years in the town.

  13. Planning for the future Let’s discuss: How might this impact on our planning for the future? What do you think will need to change? And why? What do you think the school should do for its classes in the near future? Can you think of other changes the local government might need to plan for? What impact will this have on the school?

  14. Planning for the future What might the impact be? Let’s fill in our thoughts together: What changeswill be made? What doesthe new datashow us? What do weneed to planahead for? What will weneed to spend money on?

  15. Planning for the future Our next task: Create a plan for the school in our town over the next two years. Think about: Will the number of classes in someyear groups have increased? Will we need more teachers? Will we need more space?

  16. Planning for the future EYFS When do you count? Can you think of anyone who does lots of counting? Why do they need to count?

  17. Planning for the future Counting helps us prepare for almost anything we want to do in the future. Can we think of examples where we need to count before we can plan?

  18. Planning for the future School lunches: Our cooks use numbers to plan how many school lunches are needed. Sports Day: Our teachers use numbers to plan the teams and games for Sports Day.

  19. Planning for the future Our class party How do we know how many childrenwill be at our party? We need to count the children! What will we need for our end ofterm party? Plates Cups Napkins Watermelon slices Cupcakes We need enough for everyone!

  20. Planning for the future My party We’re going to make our own party invitations. Send the invitations to your friends Receive the replies Count how many can come to your party When you know how many childrenwill be at your party, you can planthe food, the games andthe party bags!

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