Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 18: Developing your school grounds
Section 3: How can you meet the needs of people using the school grounds?
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Objectives |
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- to investigate a range of improvements using various sources of information and taking account of other people's views
- about the idea of sustainable development and to recognise its implications for people, places and environments
- to locate resources and combine information from different sources (NSE)
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Activities |
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- Discuss with the pupils whether the physical features of the school grounds or the ways they are used offer opportunities for differing cultures and ethnic identities to be celebrated, eg designing and creating a mural that celebrates diverse cultures; recreating an environment from another country; creating a spiritual or a peace garden. What kinds of improvements might provide solutions to the needs of users pupils have identified in earlier work?
- Encourage pupils to consider and discuss the long-term sustainability of the project. What involvement will be needed to maintain it? Who will be involved in the future? How should this be planned for and monitored?
- Ask pupils to create a plan showing where different activities might take place within the grounds.
- Encourage pupils to invite local community and voluntary groups and individuals to discuss their work and indicate how it could link into the project, eg wildlife groups to help create habitats.
- Pupils use a range of sources to investigate alternative solutions to the needs of users they have identified, eg manufacturers' and suppliers' websites, magazines and newspapers, videos and images from local and national organisations.
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- recognise the diversity of religious and ethnic identities within the school and wider community by thinking how this can be reflected in the features and usage of the school grounds
- identify relevant local and national voluntary and community-based groups that can link into the school grounds project
- develop discussion skills and recognise the validity of other people's points of view
- interpret data to create a plan for the school grounds
- identify and use sources of information using a range of resources including the internet
- design features to be incorporated into the project, eg seating, signage
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Points to note |
- Extension activity: art and design, and design and technology
opportunity: pupils could visit suppliers and designers or invite them into
the school to discuss possible options. They could work with professionals
such as landscape designers and/or artists to develop specific elements within
the school grounds, eg seating, wildlife area, signage.
- Link with RE: unit
7E 'What are we doing to the environment?'.
- Link with NSE: year
7 R1, year
8 R1, year
9 R2.
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