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Supply cover. Within school Field work and outdoor learning.

Course description Dawn Thomas of Nature Days is available to undertake one off or regular Forest school and outdoor learning sessions at your school over the Autumn and Winter months. Cover your PPA or supply needs with a CRB checked, qualified teacher who has five years experience in outdoor learning and forest school. Dawn will come to your school and cover classes by teaching Forest school in your grounds or undertaking curriculum linked outdoor learning sessions. Subjects covered include; • Geographical enquiry • Scientific enquiry • Ecology • Plant and animal biology • Materials • Navigation • Celtic history • Neolithic history • Weather • Sustainability • Team building • Forest school All within your own school grounds.

 

Trip: Supply cover. Within school Field work and outdoor learning.

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Cost: A Full day is £150 per class of 35 children

Ability level(s): Key Stage 1 | Key Stage 2 | Key Stage 3

Terrain and distance: Own school grounds  |  0 Miles

This activity day has the following curriculum link(s)

Geography: Ask and Answer the Questions - Where is this place/environment? What is it like and why? What is happening and why? - How is this place the same as or different from other places/environments and why? Is it always the same? Why is it changing? - How have people affected this place/environment? How can I and other people look after this environment? KS2. Geography: Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Geography: Geographical Skills Carry out: - At least one group investigation and one independent investigation into a geographical question or issue. - Fieldwork to observe and investigate real places and processes. Ask and answer the questions: - What are the features, the processes and patterns of this place/environment and why do they occur? - How and why is this place/environment changing? What might happen next, in the short/long term and why? - How and why is this place/environment/feature connected to and interdependent with other places/environment/features? - How do environments and people interact? - How can changes be sustainable and why is it important for this place/environment? - What are the geographical issues for people living in this location? - How and why do people’s views on issues differ and what do I think? How can my actions and those of other people make a difference? Locally, nationally and globally? KS3. Geography: Geographical Skills Study the physical world: the processes and landforms of coasts or rivers. KS3. Geography: Geographical Skills Field data collection, evaluating field techniques. Geography: Geographical Skills (2) Investigative Skills Cartographic Skills Statistical Skills A level Geography: Investigating 1. Observe and ask questions about a place, environment or a geographical issue, e.g. Why does it flood? How and why is our village changing? 2. Measure, collect and record data through carrying out practical investigations and fieldwork, and using secondary sources, e.g. use instruments to measure rainfall, use GIS, design questionnaires. KS2. Geography: Investigating 1. Identify and establish sequences of questions for investigation, e.g. What are the processes? How can people manage these processes? What are the issues? What decision would I make? 2. Observe, measure, extract and record data through carrying out practical investigations and fieldwork and using a variety of secondary sources, e.g. carry out land use mapping, use GIS. 3. Analyse and evaluate ideas and evidence, answer questions and justify conclusions, e.g. analyse trends over time, evaluate causes. KS3. Geography: Knowledge and Understanding of the World To experience the familiar world through investigating the indoor and outdoor environment. KS1. Geography: Locating Places, Environments and Patterns 1. Locate places and environments using globes, atlases, maps and plans, e.g. use six-figure grid references, OS 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 maps, and internet/satellite imagery. 2. Use maps, plans and imagery of different types and scales and ICT to interpret and present locational information, e.g. use relief maps, satellite images, GIS, draw sketch maps. 3. Explain the spatial patterns of features, places and environments at different scales and how they are interconnected, e.g. local traffic flows, global population density. KS3. Geography: Locating Places, Environments and Patterns 1. Identify and locate places and environments using globes, atlases, and maps, e.g. use co-ordinates and four-figure references. 2. Follow directions, estimate and calculate distances, e.g. follow map and ground routes, calculate map-to-ground distances. 3. Use maps, imagery and ICT to find and present locational information, e.g. draw sketch maps using symbols and keys. Interpret maps, and photographs including oblique, aerial and satellite images. KS2. Geography: Places and People Recognise how people’s actions can improve or damage the environment. KS1. Geography: Places and People Identify natural features, e.g. rivers, hills, beaches, and the human features, e.g. buildings, roads, bridges, of their own locality. KS1. Geography: Places and People Use and make simple maps, to find where places are and how places relate to other places. KS1. Geography: Understanding Places, Environments and Processes 1. Describe and explain physical and human features, e.g. the features of a river, characteristics of economic activity. 2. Explain the causes and effects of physical and human processes and how the processes interrelate. 3. Explain how and why places and environments change and identify trends and future implications. KS3. History: Historical Enquiry  (3) Independent use of a range of historical sources. What impact did people of this time have on their environment? KS2 and KS3. History: Historical Knowledge and understanding. (1) Pupils identify differences between ways of life at different times. Daily life of people living in the time of the Iron Age Celts. What was life like for rich and poor people, for men, women and children, e.g. houses, food and farming, transport, education, clothes, celebrations, pastimes? History: Rigid and flexible materials (10) KS2 Design and Technology Use a range of materials and components, making choices based on their developing knowledge of how they should be used, e.g. using square-section timber or lollypop sticks to strengthen a cardboard structure Science: Enquiry (1) Pupils should be given opportunities to carry out different types of enquiry. The number of observations or measurements that need to be made and their range and values to ensure reliability of evidence. The equipment and techniques required for the enquiry Any potential hazards in their work. KS2 and KS3. Science: Foundation Phase To encourage outdoor learning. Science: Interdependence of Organisms  (4) Through fieldwork, the plants and animals found in two contrasting local environments, e.g. identification, nutrition, life cycles, place in environment. KS2. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (4) The interdependence of organisms and their representation as food webs, pyramids of numbers and simple energy-flow diagrams. KS3. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (5) How and why food webs are affected by environmental factors, e.g. light intensity, water availability, temperature, and their fluctuations. KS3. Science: Interdependence of Organisms  (5) The interdependence of living organisms in those two environments and their representation as food chains. KS2. Science: Interdependence of Organisms  (6) The environmental factors that affect what grows and lives in those two environments. KS2. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (6) How human activity affects the global environment, e.g. acid rain, greenhouse effect, and the measures taken to minimise any negative effects. KS3. Science: Interdependence of Organisms (7) How humans affect the local environment, e.g. litter, water pollution, noise pollution. KS2. Science: Myself and Other Living Things Observe differences between animals and plants, different animals, and different plants in order to group them. KS1. Science: Myself and Other Living Things Identify the effects the different seasons have on some animals and plants. KS1. Science: Myself and Other Living Things Learn about the senses that humans and other animals have and use to enable them to be aware of the world around them. Identify some animals and plants that live in the outdoor environment. KS1. Science: The Sustainable Earth (1) The daily and annual movements of the Earth and their effect on day and year length. KS2. Science: The Sustainable Earth (6) A consideration of what waste is and what happens to local waste that can be recycled and that which cannot be recycled. KS2.

Trip: Supply cover. Within school Field work and outdoor learning.

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Cost: A Full day is £150 per class of 35 children

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