1. There is recognition that children have their own experiences and knowledge of the world.
2. Children are given concrete experiences outside the classroom.
3. Children have access to a wide range of visual materials, including pictures, artefacts, maps and data. Resources are accurate and up-to-date.
4. Maps are used in the context of study of a real place. Children are developing an understanding of scale.
5. Children are encourages to look for patterns in distribution in space and encouraged to ask questions about these patterns.
6. Children are encouraged to look for relationships between people and places.
7. Children are learning to use a range of ways to describe the world, e.g. specialist vocabulary, maps, diagrams, models, ICT.
8. Planning demonstrates the integration of skills, themes and real places.
9. Planning includes study of a range of types of real places across the world.
10. Activities are enquiry based. Children should be looking for issues, asking questions, and formulating hypotheses and testing them against evidence.

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