On board with us this morning were around 300 Key Stage 2 pupils and their teachers from four schools throughout the UK, namely Bramhope Primary School near Leeds, West Yorkshire (https://www.bramhopeprimary.co.uk/); The British School in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire (https://www.thebritishschool.co.uk/); Abbey Park First School in Pershore, Worcestershire (https://abbeypark.worcs.sch.uk/) and Purley Oaks Primary School in Croydon, Surrey (https://www.purleyoaks.croydon.sch.uk/). After a formal welcome and introductions, as well as sharing the aims of the workshop and proposed format for the session, we moved on to our ‘starter’. I launched Digimap for Schools and projected a map of the UK to pinpoint our locations (https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/). Never miss an opportunity to enhance pupils’ locational and place knowledge! Our first task was to challenge any misconceptions that pupils had. We asked them what they thought Brazil was like and where they…Continue readingOff to the Amazon again … twice in one week!
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