Part 1St Catherine’s Catholic Primary SchoolGeography & the Global Dimension ProjectDECSY and the Geographical Association

Before we started the topic, we really wanted to get the children excited about learning about a new country.

To coincide with the arrival of our Zambian visitors from the Niza Trust partner school, we showed the children some snap shots of our visit to Zambia in May 2011.

On the following slides, are a selection of photographs and videos that were shared with the children.

Two teachers from Niza trust school came to visit us at St. Catherines for a week. They spent time with both Y3 classes.

“I think Africa is

very, very hot”- Ofofon.

“There are lots of creatures in

Africa” - Sandali

“It would be very dusty and sandy on the

roads” –Khaliq”.

“I’d love to try lots of the fruit there”- Khaliq

“You have to walk a long way

to get water and food”- Juno.

“They only have a

little rain”- Leojo

“It would be hot because the

animals like the hot weather”-

Hope.

* The yellow star indicates the

areas that we intend to make more of a focus next year.

Please see next slide with whole school key skills grid...

Identify questions to answer and problems to solve.Show empathy.

Debate issues of concern.Recognise their roles and responsibilities as Global Citizens.

Communicate their learning in relevant ways for different audiences

Collaborate with others

WALT: identify features within our local environmentShow the class a map of the Burngreave area.Explain that we are going on a local walk to investigate

what we have in our local area and will be creating our own maps.

Show the key and the route that we were going to follow.Modelled adding the key to a map displayed on flipchart.Children in pairs completed maps during local walk and

took photographs of the different amenities.Back at school children used keys on their own maps to

create a large joint visual map with the photos taken .

We talked to the children about what they might see as we walked around their local area. This was a short TTYP activity.

We picked children to work in pairs using the Hat. This was so that we had a rangeof abilities workingtogether.

As we walked, we stopped at planned points. The children discussed what they could see around them. The children thought about what the different buildings were used for and located them on the map.

The teachers and helpers guided the children along the map so that it made it easier to locate the buildings as we walked.

After the walk, we talked about the different places we had seen on the walk. We had a go at locating on the map we had used whilst on the walk.

The children had used a key whilst on the local walk.

The follow up lesson to the local walk focused on using a key to find things on a map.

We used examples of children’s work from the local walk to discuss what we had seen and where, on the map, we had seen it.

As part of a group, the children used pictures of the things they had seen and used arrows to match up where they could be found on the map.

The children used theirKeys to help.

The children then had their own map to complete. They drew a picture of the building they had seen at different stopping points on the map.