School Journeys

This geography scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and describe different journeys that can be made around the school’s location, in the local neighbourhood and across the wider community. The class can conduct surveys and write recounts to explore the functions of different journeys.

Identify and describe some of the different journeys that can be made around the school’s location, in the local neighbourhood and across the wider community

Lesson One : School Survey
Conduct a survey to investigate, describe and record some of the different ways that pupils in the school can travel to school each day

Lesson Two : Road Signs
Identify, describe and compare the meaning of some of the different road signs for people to observe and follow that can be found in the local area

Lesson Three : Safety Signs
Investigate how to select and design some different road signs to display in places near the school to promote safety for pedestrians and vehicles

Lesson Four : Road Survey
Explore how to collect, present and interpret data about the traffic and vehicles that can be seen on a road near to the school’s location

Lesson Five : School Trip
Investigate how to identify and describe some of the special journeys and forms of transport that can be used for school trips to a range of different locations

Lesson Six : Family Journeys
Identify and record forms of transport and destinations for journeys that families can make to different locations when going on a special trip somewhere
-
Vehicle Numbers
Investigate and record how to make and count models of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to match objects related to different types of vehicles
-
Bible Stories
Research and illustrate how the teachings of Jesus are presented in different stories from the Bible
-
Word Matching
Identify, match and record the initial sounds that have been used in a range of cvc words beginning with different letters
-
Family Toys
Investigate and record how a selection of different toys and games that were owned by families have changed and developed over time