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Citizenship at key stage 3    (Year 7-9)

Unit 18: Developing your school grounds
Section 1: How can you establish the needs of your school and the community in relation to the school grounds?

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Objectives
Children should learn:
  • to develop communication skills through discussion and debate
  • to use geographical skills to observe, record and map key features in the school grounds
  • how conflicting demands on environments arise
  • to work together in groups to solve problems (NSE)

Activities

Outcomes
Children:
  • Pupils undertake a physical survey of the school grounds. They construct a map indicating the location of features such as trees, benches, footpaths and courts and pitches for games, noting their condition.
  • Ask pupils to observe and record how the school grounds are currently used at different times of the day, eg before school starts, at break and lunchtime, for lessons and activities, after school. Help pupils use techniques such as fixed-point photography, video and mapping to gather and record this information.
  • Discuss with the pupils ways of establishing the needs of different groups that use the site, eg teachers taking lessons outdoors, students and community groups using the site after school hours. Pupils agree methods for collecting and analysing this information, eg questionnaires, charts and diagrams.
  • use a range of communication skills in discussion and debate
  • use observational and recording skills to establish the current use of the school grounds
  • use mapping skills to plot features in the grounds
  • understand how different groups make conflicting demands on the school grounds

Points to note
  • There is an opportunity to use Ordnance Survey mapping systems to create and develop plans of the school site. www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk
  • Link with ICT: there is an opportunity to use computer-aided design (CAD) systems.
  • Link with key skills: ICT, working with others.
  • Extension activities:
    • science and ICT opportunity: pupils could create a database of flora and fauna found within the school grounds
    • pupils could identify existing provision for shade and shelter within the survey.
    • Link with NSE: year 7 S&L13, year 8 S&L12, year 9 S&L10.

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1. How can you establish the needs of your school and the community in relation to the school grounds?
2. How can you decide on priorities for developments to the school grounds?
3. How can you meet the needs of people using the school grounds?
4. Planning and making changes to your school grounds