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Primary Geography pagesWelcome to the web for Primary Geography in
Staffordshire and Let us know about geography projects that you are doing so that other teachers and their children can benefit from your ideas and in turn you will benefit too from others' ideas. Contact Kate Russell
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Barnaby Bear on FaceBook
The Official Barnaby Bear facebook page,
has been set up to 'provide a forum for people to contribute and
share ideas and resources that stimulate and inspire children's
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Geography of Chocolate - a Y6 / Y7
transition project brought to you by
Give Geography its Place
and in particular Christine Lloyd-Staples and Adam Lawson.
This unit of six lessons is designed for use with Y6 post-SATs.
All the planning and the resources for this unit can be downloaded on GGiP primary project |
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Primary Geography Courses
for
2008 - 2009 from
SID (QLS)
A range of courses and networking meetings are planned for subject leaders and geography teachers. Please see the Support from QLS pages for details of dates and venues and also details of all the future programme of geography CPD |
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ICT for Key Stage 1 and 2
BECTa ICT
advice is well worth looking at. There are lesson plans and associated
resources for each year group, many directly linked with popular primary
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Ofsted primary subject report and conference Have you read the latest Ofsted Annual report for Primary geography for 2005 and the report of the Ofsted Geography Conference which was on Developing the role of the subject leader? Click the links to find out! Ofsted report for 2004 here. |
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Assessing Primary
Geography Teacher assessment is a complex matter, but here are a few tools to help you with part of the process. Principles and purposes of assessment These are some special assessment tasks devised by
teachers in Staffordshire and Derby. They are designed to be completed by
pupils, generally towards the end of a unit, to help teachers judge what
pupils know, understand and can do, in order to help teachers assess
pupils' progress. These are all Word files, so can be adapted to suit your
needs Recording pupils' progress Working on your own moderating pupils' attainment can be very difficult. To help you with a national view of expected standards in geography, please have a look at QCA's National Curriculum in Action website, which contains examples of pupils work in all year groups, with a commentary on how well they have achieved and what they could do to make their work even better. |
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| Christ Church (CE) Primary School, Lichfield Sue Coley (Geography Co-ordinator) runs a Geography Club. In April 2005 the children of entered a competition, which Sue had seen it advertised in Mapping News. This was The International Cartographic Association’s Barbara Petchenik Children’s World Map Competition. The children had to make a world map related to the theme ‘Many Lands, One World’, which they all enjoyed doing. In July, we were really pleased to hear that two of our maps were in the five sent to the international judges in Spain: Kaitlin Wray’s (Y6) entitled ‘Friendship can beat sorrow’ and Holly Harrison’s (Y5) entitled ‘A World Free From Hunger would be a good world’. Both drew the world free hand. Kaitlin filled hers in with smiley faces and Holly filled hers with knives and forks. We were then delighted to hear that Holly’s map was a winner in the international competition. Both girls received a HarperCollins World Atlas as prizes and Holly is to receive a certificate to be presented by Dr C Board of The British Cartographic Society. The competition is held every two years. Details of the competition can be found on the website at www.ICACI.org | |||||
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New teaching and learning resources on Everest and Antarctica for KS2
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QCA Adapted and Combined units To support your curriculum planning, QCA have provided further examples of units; some of these are adapting previous units from their scheme of work and others are combining units from other subjects, including embedding literacy and numeracy in geography. Examples are:- Going on a Bear Hunt Y1 Geography and Poetry combined Come to Castries Y2 adapted from Tocuaro unit Beside the Seaside KS1 History and Geography combined Who lives in a place like this? KS1 Geography and Science combined Allons a la Reunion Y5/6 Geography and MfL combined Problem Parking KS2 adapted from Should the High Street be Closed to Traffic? Lifeboats and helicopters to the Rescue KS2 Embedding Maths in Geography Water Water Everywhere KS2 Geography and Science combined |
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A contrasting locality: Tocuaro Images from Tocuaro Thanks to Adam Nichols for these images taken in Tocuaro, Mexico, during a visit in Easter 2004.
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You will find these websites useful
Mexico
for Kids
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Innovative and Creative Practice - Pilot
research programme 2003 - 2004 A number of schools and QLS officers were involved in identifying and highlighting aspects of practice in a range of subjects. Visits were made to Perton First, Walhouse Junior and William Shrewsbury Primary schools to find out what was happening in geography (and there is lots!) |
You can read all the reports in detail by
following
this link or the individual geography ones here: Geography is Everywhere - Perton First School Keeping Geography in its Place - Walhouse Junior Making Geography Fun - William Shrewsbury Primary School |
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Advice for
co-ordinators Here you will be able to find items of interest as you develop geography for the primary years; includes 11 steps to better geography, guidance on the role of the geography co-ordinator, some ideas for assessment and a list of geographical big books. |
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 India
Quiz
This is the quiz from the recent "India
Day" at Thornbury Hall. It is a PowerPoint presentation -
download
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Thanks to Chris Rogers, Perton First School, near Wolverhampton, who has sent this Internet quiz which she has devised for her Year 4 pupils |
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Village Settlers (based on QCA Unit 9) Sarah Robson, Headteacher at St. Augustine's C.E.
First School in Draycott-in -the-Clay shares with us a Y3/4 lesson
seen by Ofsted and described as "good". The report describes
the lesson: "Here the teacher combined history
and geography through mapping work. Pupils looked at maps to discover
whether towns and
villages were settled by the Saxons, Vikings or Celts. The extensive
research was conducted quietly, with high levels of concentration
and at a quick pace. Pairs worked together very well and the quality
of discussion was very high. By the end, pupils made hypotheses using
information they had already gained plus what they had found out. One
group concluded that Wales was settled by the Celts because the Saxons
and Viking invaders had driven them out. This showed high levels of
understanding." The lesson plans and support materials can be
downloaded below: |
The work of one group - their graphs and reports of their findings; other work can be seen below.
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Did
you know that from Stafford to Truro* is nearly 3000 miles? Jill Wilkinson, Leasowes Junior School in Stafford, was fortunate to go to Canada on a TPID Professional Development visit. Here Jill describes the work she has been doing with her class since the visit, linking geography, literacy, ICT, art and design and the links she has made with Salmon River Elementary School. See the full story here! * Truro in Nova Scotia that is! |
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Teaching
about Chembakolli?
On a recent QLS course, Geography and the Internet, Gareth Jones from Moor First School in Biddulph, created this PowerPoint presentation to be used with children studying a Village in India. Please download the presentation here for your own use. Please make sure you are using the NEW Chembakolli pack from Action Aid when teaching this unit. It is also a good idea to complement teaching about rural India with an urban contrast and Action Aid's new Bangalore pack is excellent. |
Click on the picture above to see the presentation. |
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The Flat Stanley Project Click here to see the work and more photos Flat Stanley Website www.flatstanleyproject.com |
Click on the image above, and use it as a template for your own "Flat Stanley"! |
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| Geography Action Week 2002 - Celebrating Diversity: Life in the UK
Today Staffordshire schools joined in with this national event - examples of what they did can be found here. Right: Pupils at Lansdowne Infants school produced a collage showing the diversity of their local area. |
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| Coming to
England Caroline Johnstone from Christchurch Middle School in Stone describes how she has brought Geography into the Literacy hour by using Floella Benjamin's autobiography Coming to England to compare weather in Trinidad and England. Click here to see the work and more photos of the display! |
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Register of Research in Primary Geography Discover an active network of people concerned with the continued development of the primary child through its original geographical skills. The Register of Research in Primary Geography welcomes Final Year B.Ed., PGCE, NQT and established primary teachers to join the network, receive help and guidance for action research and CPD opportunities. Share experiences for enhancing and improving teaching and learning from Nursery to KS3. |
Further Details from: Mrs Rachel Bowles, 9 Humber Road Blackheath London SE3 7LS Email rabowles@dial.pipex.com Tel/Fax 020 8858 5685 Research Register on GA website |
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| Lesley Stanton reports on the Whose Citizenship conference for teachers of KS1 pupils. This initiative, run by the DEC in Birmingham, is about providing a practical response to citizenship in the curriculum. Find out more about the DEC and TIDE (Teachers in Development Education) here. |
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Staffordshire
School Weather Data Site
This is a new site dedicated to explaining how to collect basic weather data and encouraging young weather enthusiasts. The project is a result of a Staffordshire Educational initiative to promote the use of the Internet and sharing of weather data from across the county. This site has been created and managed by Alan Rodgers and Angella Streluk. Amington Heath Primary School |
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What
A Wonderful World! Oh yes it is, and just to prove it Year 5 at Hugo Meynell Primary have been busy travelling the globe finding out about many of the most famous landmarks, natural and man-made. |
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Fly
and float with Fergal Fergal is the frog that will guide you through some excellent aerial photographs of the Trent from Knypersley (one of the sources) to Blacktoft (the mouth). This would make a great resource for the geographical enquiry: How does the River Trent affect the landscape and people of Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire? Sally Sanders formerly of Ryecroft Middle School in Rocester, has created two differentiated worksheets for Y5 pupils to use with the River Trent website. Click here for River Trent worksheet and click here for Freddie Frog worksheet, a slightly easier version. |
An example of one of the twelve aerial photos on the fergal site |
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Barnaby's
travels Congratulations to Georgie Savage and Chris Rogers and their colleagues at Perton First School.
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The school web site features Barnaby's travels. Barnaby's adventures are pupil generated and he has been all over the world. |
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Round the World in a Day Take a trip with Thomas Russell Infants who went Round the World in a Day. This was a project for Geography Action Week. |
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Cannock Town Centre Trail
resource Carolyne Cadman of Walhouse Junior School, has produced a valuable teaching aid for teachers of KS2 Geography and English in the Cannock area, with support from Cannock Chase Council and the Staffordshire Partnership. Karen Ward and Val Moore from the District Council have produced a supporting board game and wallchart. |
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Silkmore Primary's Geographical
Enquiry Study the details of Silkmore Primary School's Geographical Enquiry into a development site in their local area - This involved the 'Planning for Real' project with pupils building models and offering opinions about a new housing development. |
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The schemes of work for Key Stage 1 and 2 geography have been published by
QCA and are available in schools now.
Schemes for KS3 are in school now and can also be found on the
DfEE
Standards website, where you can download them and use them in your
own word processor to tailor them to your own needs.
Thinking deeply about Primary Geography
This was a presentation given at the Primary Geography weekend at Charney Manor in Oxfordshire. It is a critical look at Primary Geography currently taught in schools.
The Geography and Literacy Project is well on the way - watch out for the outcomes - poetry, non-fiction texts and excellent strategies for teaching language through geography.
Questions or problems regarding this
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