The school grounds are all the outside spaces at a school.

An aerial photograph is a picture of an object or place that has been taken from above.

Locating places in our school grounds

Geography

Mapping our school grounds

Planning a route

Fieldwork: Observing geographical features on our route

Making a map of our route

Improving our school grounds

This unit provides a foundation for 'Local to global: Identifying special places' and subsequent fieldwork investigations in 'Local area: how is our place special?' and a contrasting non-European locality in 'Contrasting locality: What is it like to live in (location) Jamaica/ Tanzania?'.

This unit builds on explorations of the local area in EYFS, and on 'Local area: Where do we live?' and 'Local area: Where do we go to school?'. It extends work on the school and immediate locality through investigating a specific land use - play areas. It develops basic geographical vocabulary and simple mapwork and fieldwork skills.

This unit develops pupils’ understanding of maps and route planning by exploring their school grounds. Pupils create maps, use symbols and keys, plan and follow routes, and apply their knowledge through simple fieldwork and observation.

Local area: how do we read maps and plan routes?

Which of these photos is an aerial photograph?

Which of these might you find in a play area on your school grounds?

Why do you have different areas to play in?

Decide whether these sentences are facts or opinions.

It is important to keep yourself {{}} when in the school grounds, and look out for each other. 

Which of these statements will keep you safe?

How can you find out what local people think about a change to their local area?

Locating places in our school grounds

Lesson outcome