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Growing Communities Worksheet

Read the ice-rink story, then solve the community challenges. Share your ideas respectfully and think about what helps everyone belong.

The rink’s new season

Ruben, Losa and Rawiri live near a small ice rink. More families have started skating there. The rink is busy, so the community group is discussing how to make it safe, welcoming and useful for everyone. People share ideas at an open meeting, and the group must decide how to use its limited time and money.

1.Choose the THREE things that help people in a community live well and take part.

Safe places and useful services
People listening and helping one another
Rules that treat people fairly
Only allowing the fastest skaters to use the rink

2.Connect each person who helps the rink community with the job they might do.

Rink caretaker
Volunteer first aider
Community organiser
Skate instructor

Teaches people how to skate
Checks the ice and keeps the building safe
Helps someone who is hurt
Invites people to meetings and shares updates

3.The group has money for one improvement first: a safer entrance ramp, brighter changing-room lights, or new decorations. Which improvement would you choose first, and why might it help people take part?

4.The rink has a limited number of helmets to lend. What is one fair way to share them, and why is it important to look after shared resources?

5.Some families move closer to the rink. Give one possible reason a family might move to a new place and one thing that could help them feel welcome there.

6.At a community meeting, listening to different ideas can help a group make a decision that works for more people.

TrueFalse

7.The rink gets crowded after school, and new skaters feel nervous. Suggest one change the community could try to make skating safer or more welcoming.

8.Ruben wants more young people to share ideas about the rink. Name one way to invite them and one respectful way they can take part in the meeting.

9.Complete the idea in your own words: “A community can grow stronger when people…” Include one example connected to the ice rink.