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== =Year 7 Star Homeworks=

Collages
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Farming- ways that farming and food production are becoming more sustainable
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**Paul's River Homework**
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**Angell's River**
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** Daisy's River homework **
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** Brendan and Bradley did a combined effort which was excellent! **
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Lucas' excellent observations here:
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Letters to the papers!
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Rocks homework quizzes
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Lucas says
Our nearest shop is approx. 150 yards away. I walk there and it takes less than five minutes. It sells convenience goods such as bread, milk, most grocery items, alcohol, sweets, toiletries, cleaning products and some fruit and veg. These are lower order goods. It has a threshold of approx. 500, it has a wide range as the nearest shop after that is over 500 yards away in the opposite direction. As our local shop is a village shop, it is at the bottom of the shopping hierarchy. On one side of the main road in the town there are 2 estate agents, 3 banks, 4 hairdressers, 2 charity shops, 3 fast food takeaways, 1 pub, 1 library and 3 clothes shops. These shops sell higher order goods such as designer clothes. The nearest settlement after our town is approx. 10 miles away. Our town has a threshold of 2-3 thousand and is at the top of the shopping hierarchy.

Excellent. Keep an eye on Star Homeworks - it is not there yet but will be soon. Lots of information collected. Well done. But you forgot to use the keywords on the list for top marks!

Sîoned says:
The shop is about one mile away from my house, two minutes by car and you could walk there in seven minutes, but there are no pavements and the road would be dangerous to walk on. The shop is mainly a butchers shop, but it also sells lower order goods, such as milk, bread and sweets, fruit and vegetables and other convenience goods. Each village has its own convenience store, be it a corner shop or farm shop, so its range is confined to the village and some isolated houses such as farms that are about two miles from the village. There would be little passing trade, if any, the threshold for the shop would be about 400 people, and the population of West Walton is 1,700. Our nearest Central Business District is Kings Lynn, which would be considered as a small town, with high streets in the shopping hierarchy pyramid. We walked down on the side of the main shopping street which contained the following shops.
 * Part 1 –Nearest Shop: Cooks West Walton**
 * Part Two-Central Business District-Kings Lynn**

William says:
The nearest shop to where I live is called Londis, and it sells convenience goods. These are lower order goods such as newspapers, sweets and milk. We get there by walking and it takes 12 minutes from our house. There is no car park outside because it does not sell items that people would drive for, and it does not have a wide enough range of products for a full weekly shop. Additionally it does not sell large items. If we carry on past Londis for another 10 minutes walking we reach the CBD (central business district) which is the main shopping street in St Albans. There are lots of shops and these include a bakery, a furniture shop, an ice-cream shop, toy shop, a supermarket, lots of clothes shops, cafes and restaurants. Some of these are high order goods such as the furniture shop, and there are a few car parks so people can come from further away for the high order products. Watford is the next nearest settlement to St Albans and it has an even wider range of shops, however it is 15 minutes drive away so we don’t go very often.

Callum has found out LOTS of information
SHOPPING IN MY TOWN Close to my house there is only one supermarket called Sainsbury’s. It sells lots of things like food, household stuff, newspapers sweets and lottery tickets. These are lower order goods. They also have higher order goods such as kettles, toasters, microwaves and televisions as well as clothes so it’s good that near to us we have lots to choose from all in one shop. There are comparison goods because there are different makes of all the higher order goods and the prices can be very low if they are Sainsbury’s own make or they can be higher if they are more well known makes. There is a petrol station and small shop as part of this supermarket and the shop sells convenience stuff such as milk, bread, wine newspapers etc. in case people want to shop in a hurry or they have run out of something. It’s good because people can get petrol, wash their cars and do their shopping all in one place. I have read that we have a threshold population of 20,500 people in our area which is Poplars, Chells and Chells Manor which is the bit that I live in. For this whole area some people live right next door to the supermarket and some who use it most often live about a mile away which is us so it is easy for people to get to the shop because the furthest you would have to walk would be a mile which takes about 25 minutes (we had to do this when it snowed last year). By car it takes about 5 minutes but it depends what time you go because there can be a lot of traffic. The shop has a huge free car park which is good. There are lots of buses that go there all the time and that takes about 10 minutes my neighbour told me because I’ve never been there by bus. If you want to bike it is safe because there are special tracks and lots of underpasses so you don’t have to go on the road. I looked up the sphere of influence for our area which uses this shop and it is about a 3 mile radius if you take the furthest away of each bit of our neighbourhood. (Chells, Chells Manor and Poplars where the shop is located). The next nearest similar shop is Tesco which is about 3 miles away from us but it is not easy to walk there or bike there because of the busy roads because it’s nearer the town centre. From where I live it takes about 10 minutes by car and 15 by bus and the parking is free.

In the CBD of Stevenage on just one side of the road are Poundland, Clarks Shoes, WH Smith, Ryman. Marks and Spencer and Discount UK.

WHAT THEY SELL Poundland …………..toiletries, sweets, food, toys and household stuff. Clarks …………..shoes, bags and boots. WH Smith …………...books, cards, pens ,paper and magazines. Ryman ……………paper, pens ,computer stuff and office stuff. M and S ……………clothes, shoes and food. Discount …………….same as Poundland only bigger.

The next nearest settlement with the same kind of shops and things to buy is Hitchin which is 5 miles away. You can go there by bus or car. Stevenage town centre is always busy because people can get there easily by bus or car. Old people travel free but if you go by car parking is expensive except Sundays when it’s £1.20 all day. Some people travel in from local villages like Aston or Walkern and also from towns like Hitchin because it has more large shops and comparison goods. The sphere of influence for Stevenage town centre is about 5 miles. After that distance people could also go to Letchworth or Baldock or Royston or Cambridge for their shopping.

And so did Paul!
It has to be noted we live in Lewes town centre slightly just up the hill. Luckily we did not flood but local amenities certainly suffered on the flood plan, because they built on the old marsh area. The nearest shop to my house, 5 minutes walk is Waitrose, lower order of goods and convenience goods. Sphere and range is local and larger because visitors come from surrounding villages, so sphere of influence is rather large and range rather big(up to 20 miles).Waitrose sells local farmers produce as well as abroad and U.k. food items. Next nearest Waitrose for Duchy Cornwall goods etc, at Crowborough and Brighton. Though they say a new one is opening in Uckfield. The next comparison goods store would be Tescos in Lewes which is 10 mintues walk from my house. They sell higher order goods like electrical items and clothes, as well as convenience foods/lower order goods. So here we find a mixture of higher order goods and lower order goods. Again the range is quite high because of rural communities visiting from further a field. The hairdressers and Riverside attract more local Lewes people and so does the shoe shops. They are 7 minutes walk from my house. Also, the college is 20 minutes walk and has a higher order of service and large sphere of influence because of education for locals, foreign students. So again the range will be local and further afield because some students may take up to one hour to arrive at college. Unlike local primary school which has a smaller sphere and range just local postcode students. 10 minutes walk from my house you can be at Argos which is higher order of goods.It sells T.V. ,cameras ,toys, jewellery and furniture etc. Comparison goods could be the local jewellers, computer shop and mobile phones shop found in town centre. Range would be larger and sphere of influence not to big. Internet I think has over taken a lot of electrical goods and computer sales because its cheaper and easier to shop on line.

For smaller shops the threshold may be smaller, like you can only do so many hair cuts but for a supermarket they need a larger population to survive and there for higher threshold. Waitrose sells more expensive goods than Tescos and Waitrose is smaller with less staff so will have a lower threshold than TESCO. Turnover is influenced by the type of business and size, location. Though they are still quite similar unlike the clothes designer shop which will need less people to enter the door than Tescos. Some businesses need higher levels of population like a town to survive but it depends on type of business, size and speciality. For instance jewellery has a higher profit and makes more many per item than selling bread but everyone needs bread and jewellery is a commodity for birthdays and special occasions for sales. So bread is a convenience good and jewellery higher order. Towns and cities tend to have higher order goods and the local village shop convenience for daily requirements.

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 * 1) **There is a river for water and transport.**
 * 2) **There is flat land to build on.**
 * 3) **There is a forest to the south east of Penkridge for shelter and building materials and fuel.**
 * 4) **There is a railway station because the land owner only agreed to let the railway line run through Penkridge if trains stopped there twice a day.**
 * 5) **There is a market where people could trade.**
 * 6) **There is a canal for transporting.**
 * 7) **There is fertile land to farm**
 * 8) **There are roads for transport.**

By Year 7 Lions
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