Useful resources

Listed below are my resources that might be useful to teachers about to teach the QCA unit on Barnaby Bear, or any other unit of geography. Please feel free to download and alter or use them if they will be of help.

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• Blank risk assessment form - for school trips and other activities tht take place within your school grounds. If your school has one of these, you should stick to your school's format. If you use this one, you should use your LEA's risk calculation method.
• Permission letter photos on your own Barnaby Bear website - please note, this letter is adapted from the original, created by College of St Mark and St John, so I do not hold the any copyright on this. This contains useful ideas for what parents could do with the bear, to get the most geography possible out of the trip.
• Travel the river board game with chance cards - game developed to help teach the reading of grid references, alongside some important concepts about rivers (including erosion, pollution and currents).
• My long term plans for geography - an attempt at planning for Reception through to Year 6. Loosely based on existing QCA units, so could be a non-threatening way for someone to begin re-writing their school geography plans
• Water activities and ways that a watery or river theme can be incorporated into a whole school curriculum. Mainly science and geography, but some other cross-curricular links thrown in. Shows how the key concepts for rivers (Year 6) can be progressively taught throughout the school. With National Curriculum justification
• Great source if you need to buy blank CDs or DVDs in bulk for your class / school.

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