Come and see all of our families. They are different, just like you and me. See how we live together happily. It's fun to be part of our family. Our family. Our family.
Hi, I'm Dexter and I'm ten.
Hi, I'm Buster and I'm five.
BOTH: Come and meet our family!
So, tell them where we live, Bus.
We live on a farm by the countryside.
So, who is in our family?
There's Cleo.
DEXTER: Cleo is our big sister and she's 12. She loves singing and horse riding.
We live with our mummy, and she likes walking around the field with us. I help her bake pancakes.
Yeah, your pancakes are the best.
Yeah.
Good girl.
We also live with our dad.
BUSTER: He loves playing golf with me.
Eyes on the ball.
ALL: This is our family!
What's the favourite thing about our family?
Spending time with our family.
Life on the farm is hard, because you never get a break, because the animals can't feed themselves.
CLEO: So, yeah, there's lots of jobs to do, isn't there?
DEXTER: Yeah. We've got to make sure that the horses get enough fresh air, get a leg stretch.
BUSTER: Lead them out. And give them food.
You're going to give her some apple? Yeah, OK. Do you remember? Nice and gently.
BUSTER GIGGLES
MUM: How's it looking?
DEXTER: It's looking good.
MUM: Oh, it's lovely. Cleo, can you give us a hand with Holly's rug, please? Thank you.
CLEO: Good girl. With the mucking out, Mum tends to do the actual mucking out.
DEXTER: We collect the shavings and the hay.
MUM: And what's your job when we're down at the stables?
BUSTER: Collecting buckets. That's a boring job.
MUM: Ah, but, you see, you're only little, so I don't want to give you a big job.
DAD: When you get older, you'll get a bigger job.
BUSTER: Yeah.
DAD: Go and get the eggs.
DEXTER: OK. I used to just be sweeping and taking buckets and, like, I wouldn't be trusted to take eggs.
MUM LAUGHS
DEXTER: No! Being a big brother is quite hard. You've got to make sure that he's not hurt and you've got to make sure he stays out of trouble.
MUM: All right?
BUSTER: Yeah.
MUM: If Dexter says that he's hurt himself, what do you do then?
BUSTER: Go to ask Mum and say Dexter's hurt himself.
CLEO: Being the oldest comes with a lot of responsibility. I've obviously got to look after them and stuff, but then it's all fun with them and I make sure that we all have enough food and we all play games.
Come and get me!
It's definitely important to do things as a family so you've always got the support if you need it.
What makes a family is being close and supportive.
I think what makes a family is helping people.
BUSTER: I got hit!
I hope you enjoy meeting our family and learning about our jobs and how we help each other.
ALL: Bye!
Video summary
Brothers Buster and Dexter welcome us onto their family farm and show us how everyone has roles and responsibilities.
Teacher Notes
Brothers Buster and Dexter welcome us onto their farm to see their busy home life. They show us how everyone in the family has a job to do, no matter how small, and how these responsibilities change as they get older.
The Notes below are taken from the complete Teachers' Notes document.
Learning objective
To show that everyone in a family has jobs they can do and how our responsibilities change as we get older.
Key questions
Before the video:
- What are the different jobs that people in a family do in their homes?
- Do people in a family have different jobs?
- Why do people have different jobs?
- Are there jobs that some people in a family can’t do? Why?
- What does ‘responsibility’ mean?
During / after the video:
- What kind of jobs do Buster and his family do? / What responsibilities do they have?
- Why is it important that they all help out?
- Why can’t Buster do the same jobs as his brother and sister?
- When will he be able to do those jobs?
- How can he help out?
After the video:
- Which jobs do you have in your house?
- What jobs can you do now that you couldn't do when you were smaller?
- Which jobs are you looking forward to doing when you get older?
- Why is it important for everyone to help out in a family?
- What responsibilities do you have at school?
- What responsibilities do the adults at school have?
- What other kinds of responsibilities do people have?
Suggested activities
- Create a display showing all different jobs that the children have to do at home and / or in school. (Be aware of any vulnerable children - eg young carers - and focus on jobs at school if necessary).
- Ask children to draw a picture of themselves when they were younger, themselves now, and themselves in the future. Next to / underneath / around each image, ask them to write the responsibilities they had / have / are looking forward to having.
- Ask children to identify some jobs they could help with at home that they don’t do already (eg laying the table, cooking dinner, hanging out washing). Ask them who it would help and how that person would feel if the child helped them. Challenge them to do a different job to help out each day for a week.
- Children identify a job that one member of their family does, and draws or makes a model / puppet of that person as a superhero doing the job / Design a superhero cape for that person.
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