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Schemes of Work
QCA

Geography at key stages 1 and 2    (Year 1)

Unit 1: Around our school - the local area
Section 2: Where is the school? How do I get to school?

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • their sense of place in relation to home and school
  • to describe a route

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • Ask the children to draw a map of their route from home to their classroom and describe their route to a partner.
  • draw a map showing their route to school
  • recognise where places are within the school

Points to note

Speaking and listening: when children are speaking about their route to school and listening to their partners, encourage them to use questions and words that trigger questions and help the speaker to add detail to their account eg Where do you cross the road?

Sections in this unit

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1. Where do I live? Where do other pupils live?
2. Where is the school? How do I get to school?
3. What can we see in the streets around our school?
4. What are our immediate surroundings like?
5. What jobs do people do in our locality?
6. How do people spend their leisure time?
7. Are there any changes taking place in our area?
8. General points to note