EDUCATION
Learners Age 4 to 11Curriculum 2022
These activities have been designed to fit with the requirements of Curriculum 2022. They aim to support teachers in developing young learners to fulfil the four purposes through engaging, hands-on, metacognitive, collaborative tasks which improve learners’ skills of problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creative thinking and research.
Cross-curricular
Curriculum 2022 stresses the need for cross-curricular thematic contexts which have the embedded cross-curricular skills of the Literacy and Numeracy, and Digital Competency frameworks. All the activities fulfil these requirements and are referenced as such.
THE ACTIVITIES
The activities aim to stimulate learners’ curiosity, so that they will be more engaged and therefore better motivated to succeed. They are based around questioning because this is the driving force behind improving learners’ higher-order thinking, with high quality questions leading to high quality talk.
Curriculum 2022 outlines 12 pedagogical principles. The developed activities fulfil these requirements of good learning and teaching, giving opportunities to utilise all of the pedagogical principles.
The activities induction pack can be downloaded here.
Reception – Year 2
- What is grazing? (Download PDF)
- How do we feel about the Common? (Download PDF)
- What are mazes? (Download PDF)
- How can we keep the Common safe for the animals? (Download PDF)
- What can we find on the Common? (Download PDF)
YEARS 3 – 6
- How can we look after the Common? (Download PDF)
- How should we combat illegal off-roading on the Common? (Download PDF)
- How can we plan for future generations? (Download PDF)
- What is a kite? (Download PDF)
- How do we identify animals? (Download PDF)
Useful Links
Litter 01- Keep Wales Tidy
Litter 02 – Fly Tipping Action Wales
Litter 03 – Stats Wales
Litter 04 – RSPCA
Waste Minimisation 01 – Love your clothes
Waste Minimisation 02 – My Recycling
Waste Minimisation 03 – Love food hate waste
Biodiversity 01- Biodiversity Wales
Biodiversity 02- Natural Resources Wales
Outdoor education 01- Outdoor Learning Wales
Outdoor education 02 – Wales Council for Outdoor Learning