Enquiry Question: Where is our school?
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Site analysis – outdoor (Day 1)
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area OUTCOME: Pupils carry out a site analysis of their school and surrounding area, noting down their observations TASK DEPENDENCIES: N/A Curriculum Links: Geography, English, Maths, Art, Design and Technology, Citizenship, Cultural Capital
LEARNING OBJECTIVE: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area OUTCOME: Pupils carry out a site analysis of their school and surrounding area, noting down their observations TASK DEPENDENCIES: N/A Curriculum Links: Geography, English, Maths, Art, Design and Technology, Citizenship, Cultural Capital
Read more »Site analysis – desk based (Day 1)
Learning Objective: to gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area. Outcome: Pupils use maps of their school and local area to carry out a site analysis Curriculum Links: Geography, English, Maths, Art, Design and Technology, Citizenship, Cultural Capital
Learning Objective: to gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area. Outcome: Pupils use maps of their school and local area to carry out a site analysis Curriculum Links: Geography, English, Maths, Art, Design and Technology, Citizenship, Cultural Capital
Read more »Contextualising our school (Day 1)
Learning Objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area OUTCOME: Pupils conduct online research of their school: geographical location and how historically how their school has changed. Opportunity to conduct research at local library TASK DEPENDENCIES: Conducting research on the internet, books, case study writing, knowledge […]
Learning Objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area OUTCOME: Pupils conduct online research of their school: geographical location and how historically how their school has changed. Opportunity to conduct research at local library TASK DEPENDENCIES: Conducting research on the internet, books, case study writing, knowledge […]
Read more »Reflecting on fieldwork observations (Day 1)
Learning Objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area Outcome: Pupils reflect on their recordings and observations from the site analysis. They interpret any numerical data, drawing up graphs. They determine the strengths, challenges, opportunities and threats of the area they have looked at TASK DEPENDENCIES: […]
Learning Objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area Outcome: Pupils reflect on their recordings and observations from the site analysis. They interpret any numerical data, drawing up graphs. They determine the strengths, challenges, opportunities and threats of the area they have looked at TASK DEPENDENCIES: […]
Read more »Creative task (Day 1)
Learning Objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area. To use the design, make, evaluate process to put forward ideas on how an area could be improved. OUTCOME: Pupils produce designs for a place or space in the school grounds or local area. They can approach […]
Learning Objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area. To use the design, make, evaluate process to put forward ideas on how an area could be improved. OUTCOME: Pupils produce designs for a place or space in the school grounds or local area. They can approach […]
Read more »Presenting ideas (Day one)
INTRODUCTION: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area OUTCOME: Pupils present their initial design ideas and listen to those of their peers, offering constructive feedback and asking questions TASK DEPENDENCIES: Site analysis fieldwork activity, understanding scale, features of human and physical Geograpy, map-drawing
INTRODUCTION: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area OUTCOME: Pupils present their initial design ideas and listen to those of their peers, offering constructive feedback and asking questions TASK DEPENDENCIES: Site analysis fieldwork activity, understanding scale, features of human and physical Geograpy, map-drawing
Read more »Day 1 – where is our school?
Where is our village, town, city? Learning objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area Outcome: Pupils complete fieldwork, map reading, site analysis and record their observations before responding to a design brief Curriculum links: Geography, English, Maths, Art, Design and Technology, Citizenship, Cultural Capital
Where is our village, town, city? Learning objective: To gain knowledge and understanding of placemaking through exploring the school grounds and surrounding local area Outcome: Pupils complete fieldwork, map reading, site analysis and record their observations before responding to a design brief Curriculum links: Geography, English, Maths, Art, Design and Technology, Citizenship, Cultural Capital
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