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Here at KS1 Nature we are endeavouring to help you teach the nature components of the National Currciulum in a way that engages children with their environment and truly helps them to connect with it and to realise the interdependence of all living things on each other: not just to tick an assessment box, or to say you have 'covered the curriculum', but with a much more lasting aim - that of for equipping all children for LIFE! Only people so educated will truly understand what is necessary to put right the damage we have done to our planet and will be careful to make sure that what is done in future ensures that the situation does not get worse. It will take more than reducing our use of plastic, and CO2 emissions, as the way we live needs to fundamentally change. We have lost the concept that humans depend on the rest of the living world We think that out technology has set us apart. Our current way of living is unsustainable - costing us our health, both physical and mental, in more ways than we realise. (KS1 Nature) Sadly, although in days gone by, teachers placed a high priority on teaching nature study - right through to secondary level, it has been reduced to a few targets for KS1 children and seen as work for the young, and therefore not for serious consideration. The science curriculum has done away with 'nature study', re-naming it 'plants' and 'animals' and making nature study look unscientific, It has done great harm. We are more disconnected from nature than ever before. Not only this, but this little bit of content has been reduced to a tick-boxing exercise as teachers say 'Yes, I have covered that and little Tommy knew it five seconds after I told him' and not seeing the full scope of the subject. Nature study cannot be taught in one, or even two or three lessons. It builds subtly from birth upwards to adulthood, as our awareness of the world grows from one year to the next. It is formed through repeated exposures to nature - not isolated lessons in a classroom. It is formed as children have time to ponder, reflect and wonder. |
Welcome Hello, I am Lilibette (B.Ed Hons Early Years, Studies in the Environment Specialism Course), here to encourage the next generation to love the natural world, and thereby learn the necessary skills and knowledge to look after it in the years ahead. Read more... Categories
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