Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 18: Developing your school grounds
Section 4: Planning and making changes to your school grounds
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Objectives |
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- about the importance of participation in enabling change to take place
- to calculate and compare the costs of different plans for developing the school grounds
- about sources of funding, ways of raising funds and how to manage money from fund-raising events
- to reflect on the process of participating in the development of their school grounds
- about the effects of environmental planning and management on people, places and environments
- to reflect on the development of their abilities as speakers in different contexts (NSE)
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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Children: |
- Encourage pupils to think about how they can participate in changing the management and appearance of their school grounds, eg changing the way the site is used at break and lunchtime, planting trees to form a shelter, painting a mural, constructing a feature such as a pergola. This could involve help from local or national organisations and experts.
- Help pupils to investigate and calculate the cost of different aspects of the project and compare these with the budget. Ask them to research sources of funding for school grounds projects, including finding out if grants are available from the local authority or other organisations. They could seek funding, plan and organise fund-raising events or activities (school or community based) and take advice on where to deposit the money raised to get the best rate of interest.
- Following the planning process and later when the project is completed, ask pupils to reflect on their individual and group contributions to the school grounds project. They consider what went well and what could have been done better. They think of ways the social, cultural and environmental impact of the project could be monitored. They identify ways of making future projects more effective and improving their own contribution.
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- describe the work of locally and nationally based voluntary organisations that can support schools in their school grounds projects
- demonstrate planning, organisation and money management skills
- evaluate their contribution to the project and describe the knowledge and skills they have developed
- understand the effects of environmental planning and management on the school grounds
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Points to note |
- There is an opportunity to work with local and national
organisations such as BTCV (www.btcv.org/),
wildlife trusts, the RSPB (www.rspb.org.uk),
Rotary clubs and the police.
- Art and design, and design and technology opportunity: there is an opportunity
to work with local artists, designers and craftspeople to create features
for the site.
- See the DfEE guidance on financial capability through personal finance education
for key stages 3 and 4.
- Information about finance education resources can be found on the pfeg website
(www.pfeg.org).
- Link with thinking skills: evaluation.
- See guidance on assessment and reflection in the Teacher's
guide.
- Link with NSE: year
8 S&L1, year
9 S&L1, year
8 S&L9, year
9 S&L8.
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