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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The Amazon has been in the News rather a lot this past week and for very positive reasons too. Four children were found alive after 40 days following a plane crash and fending for themselves in the tropical rainforest of Columbia (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65864158). Whilst such an item was not directly related to Brazil, the country that our workshop centres largely upon, it did help to highlight the resilience of the indigenous people and how much we have to learn from them. We always advocate an enquiry-led approach to learning, hence the overriding question that accompanies the material linked to our virtual trips to the Amazon (‘What makes the Amazon so amazing?‘). This was indeed the question that we hoped to discover…Continue readingA virtual adventure with a highly topical theme!
Time to steer yet another multi-schools event! On board for this week’s ‘amazing Amazon adventure’ were Key Stage 2 pupils and teachers from five schools stretching across the UK and Europe, namely The British School of Paris (https://www.britishschool.fr/); Redmarley C of E Primary School (https://www.redmarleyacademy.org/), Staunton and Corse C of E Academy (https://www.stauntoncorseacademy.co.uk/) and Hartpury C of E Primary School (https://www.hartpury.org.uk/), all within Gloucestershire, and Epsom Primary and Nursery School in Surrey (https://www.epsomprimaryschool.co.uk/). We also welcomed Emily from Virtual School Visits (https://www.virtualschoolvisits.com/) and Rob Porteus, a contact of Adriana’s who is very involved with Extinction Rebellion, so that they could experience a flavour of what we deliver. I accessed Digimap for Schools (https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/) and projected a map of the UK and…Continue readingA virtual multi-schools event with a European dimension!