Good Practice Case Study

St Nicholas Church of England Primary School

School Number 120

Using ICT and Geography to Develop an Understanding of the Local Environment

Video:

'Fairlands Valley needs more facilities'

Pupils at St Nicholas, investigated how local people use the Fairlands Park near the school. They carried out surveys to guide a future plan for improving the park. They even interviewed a stop animation frog!

View the abridged version of the video below:

Teachers' comments:

"A very challenging and rewarding project. which provide a wonderful opportunity to stretch the children with higher level language and thinking skills. It also gave them a great opportunity to try to plan and organise themselves to produce a lot in a short time scale.

The children involved have since been able to help groups of their peers to produce stop animation films. The digital blue cameras have also been used by many other year groups in the school."

Comments from children working on the project:

"Working on this project helped me learn to work against the clock because we had a very short time. I was very excited at the beginning, I found it hard to get all the work done on time but in the end I felt very proud of what we had achieved."

"It improved our team work because we had to plan what we were going to do and then we had to organise ourselves. We learnt a lot of new vocabulary and skills. It was exciting and will help us when we move to secondary school."

"I thought it was very challenging. I learnt a lot about new technology and I think it will help me a lot in the future."

Images from the video showing leisure pursuits and a map of the park.