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My School: A Guided Grounds Walk

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Geographical Skills - Mini topic Building Skills in Geography

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Objectives

Geography

  • Use plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features
  • Devise a simple map
  • Use and construct basic symbols in a key
  • Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds.

Enrichment Activities

  • Art & Design: Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using texture, line, shape, form and space.
  • History: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality.
  • English: Write for a range of purposes.
  • Science: Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
  • PSHE: Find out about people who work in their community.
  • D&T: Use the basic principles of a healthy and varied diet to prepare dishes; Understand where food comes from.

Lesson Planning

Alien Alice is visiting your school from an intergalactic primary school on Mars. She wants to find out all about your school grounds to help develop their grounds back home. You will need to create a guided walk based on your own fieldwork that takes in the key features of your school.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To complete fieldwork in the school grounds to identify key features.
  • To map key features of the school grounds using photographs and a simple key.
  • To use directional language to describe a given route.

Children will:

  • Take photographs and label key human and physical features of their school and its grounds.
  • Create a guided walk around the school which highlights the geography of their school.
  • Annotate a simple map of the school.

Enrichment Activities

  • Draw a building or section of a building.
  • Order school information on a timeline and write an email.
  • Identify and draw plants in the school grounds.
  • Find out about the roles of local people who help us.
  • Design a healthy sandwich and/or smoothie.

You Will Need

  • Plan maps of school
  • Digital cameras

You will need additional resources for the Enrichment Activities.

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