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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 6: How do people spend their leisure time?

QCA

Objectives

Children should learn:
  • about the need for leisure activities and the types of facilities available

Activities

Outcomes

Children:
  • With the children's help, design and carry out a survey of how they, their parents, other adults and friends spend their leisure time.
  • With the children's help, use local maps, photographs, including aerial photographs, and leisure advertisements in local newspapers to plot local recreational facilities on a base map.
  • know that a local area may have a variety of leisure facilities
  • know that local leisure facilities depend on people to support them

Points to note

Citizenship: considering how people use local facilities links to ideas of community.

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