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Key Stage 2

To locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities.

Activities include calculating distance, chronological ordering, conversion between old and new money, percentages and multiplication.

To extend students’ locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East. With a focus on the environmental regions of these areas of the world, including polar and hot deserts, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities.

To use research and exploration, such as the study of different cultures, to identify and understand user needs.

Activities include calculating distance, chronological ordering, conversion between old and new money, percentages and multiplication.

Use the Salesman receipts to identify some of the places in the UK the Salesman visited. Mark these on a map.
Place the Salesmen trips on a timeline. Did he do repeat business anywhere?
Newman Brothers also sold their products overseas. Using extracts from the International Sales Ledgers from the 1930s and 1940s, mark on a World Map which countries Newman Brothers traded with. What do their sales abroad tell us about the company? Discuss the similarities and differences between the areas that Newman Brothers sold to.
Put the sales ledgers into chronological order.
Can you find any connection between cancelled orders and world events?
Tracking your progress on a map and using sales orders or expenses claims, write a week’s worth of diary entries.
Using the Activity Sheet_Travel and Transport, calculate how far the Travelling Salesman would have travelled in a week. How much commission would he have earned? Activity Sheet_Earning Commission
Write a brochure or an advert for Newman Brothers. Why are their products the best?
Look at the profiles of two of Newman’s Travelling Salesmen. Write “a week in the life of…” for one of them.