There are three areas which I am passionate about promoting in Primary Schools: outdoor learning for all years, physical activity as an integral part of life and learning, and interdisciplinary learning. I believe that when learning is linked across the curriculum in a real-world context, it makes sense to learners.
There are three areas which I am passionate about promoting in Primary Schools: outdoor learning for all years, physical activity as an integral part of life and learning, and interdisciplinary learning. I believe that when learning is linked across the curriculum in a real-world context, it makes sense to learners.
Writing a School Travel Plan is the foundation of real, lasting change to the school run at your school. It is also the start of a revolution in physical and mental health in the whole school community. When children and their carers walk, scoot or cycle to school they are establishing active travel habits which will help to keep them healthy throughout their lives. When traffic is reduced, active travel also provides opportunities for relaxed interaction, fostering positive relationships throughout the school community.
When done well, the process of creating a School Travel Plan also provides a wealth of opportunities for interdisciplinary learning in a ‘real world’ c ontext. Learning becomes meaningful to pupils across the school and those pupils are highly motivated by seeing the change that they themselves are bringing about. The only way to create a School Travel Plan which works is to involve pupils in the full process of creating and implementing such a plan. Without this, it is simply another document to gather dust.
The School Travel Plan pack provides all the information and resources your school needs to create an excellent School Travel Plan and transform your school community.
Lesson plans for a whole class study of The Boy Who Biked The World by Alastair Humphreys.
An extended (six week) homework project and also a series of seven lessons designed to follow whole class reading of the novel.
The homework project gives step by step guidance for pupils to create information booklets and give individual presentations to the class, on a country or place of their choice.
Seven lesson plans with worksheets are also included, covering geography and creative writing.
The lessons are suitable for Primary 5 to 7 classes (Scotland) with Second level Curriculum for Excellence links highlighted.
Suitable for KS2 classes (England).
