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.

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?

Starter Quiz

What are your school grounds?