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Good morning!. Jamie Cox – Head of department Henry Gatland – KS3 co-ordinator. Macmillan Academy’s experience of embedding Digimaps across Key Stages 3-5. Content. New KS3 programmes of study. Y6 into Y7 induction. Supporting students – learning the basics. Digimaps within KS3.

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  1. Good morning! Jamie Cox – Head of department Henry Gatland – KS3 co-ordinator

  2. Macmillan Academy’s experience of embedding Digimaps across Key Stages 3-5

  3. Content • New KS3 programmes of study. • Y6 into Y7 induction. • Supporting students – learning the basics. • Digimaps within KS3. • Digimaps at KS4 and KS5. • Digimaps in action.

  4. New programmes of study for geography 2014 • The National Curriculum sets out the ‘core knowledge and understanding’, but we provide the context, relevance and sequence of learning ‘...to enrich their locational knowledge and spatial and environmental understanding.’ • Renewed emphasis on locational and place knowledge, human and physical processes. • Across all key stages students should be using maps, atlases and globes and using fieldwork to investigate human and physical features. • Emphasis on OS maps at KS2 & 3, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs. • Use G.I.S to view, analyse and interpret places and data.

  5. Year 6 into 7 ‘Healthy spaces and unhealthy places’. Summer holiday assignment.

  6. Supporting students Helpsheets. Camtasia. Student experts.

  7. Using Digimaps in KS3

  8. Year 7 My local area (includes their summer assignment work). Ullswater activity week.

  9. Year 8 • The Geography of Crime. • River Tees walk (field work).

  10. Year 9 • New Apple store for Middlesbrough (decision making exercise).

  11. Using Digimaps in KS4 & 5

  12. Field work planning & preparation i.e. risk assessment, pre-field work prep. • Controlled assessment tasks. • Cross curricular uses: • - Outdoor Learning department (DoE route planning) • - History dept (1890’s map of Middlesbrough compared to today).

  13. Land use mapping: GCSE coursework

  14. Year 11 land use mapping with photos and text added

  15. Digimaps in action

  16. Thank you for listening. j.cox@macademy.org.uk h.gatland@macademy.org.uk

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