Sarah Whitehouse and Mark Jones University of the West of England Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years – Secondary Collaboration GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, 2012.

- Choice of texts in Early Years and KS1/KS2 - Day in the school - Secondary trainee teachers perspectives - Questioning Early Years, Primary and Secondary collaborations GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration

GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration Choice of texts in Early Years and KS1/KS2 - Important for teachers to revisit how they are using old favourites, particularly where environments and circumstances may have changed (North, 2011) - Activity pack (5 minutes) Reference: North, W. (2011) Is Katie Morag History? Primary Geography 75 pp 22-24

Day in the school - reception GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration -Staged reading of story -Personalising stick people - Locating homes - Finding the stick people and map making, using visual clues - Celebrations

Day in the school – Year 1 GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration -Staged reading of story -Pond dipping - Creating character - farm environment (small world) - Making maps of outdoors -Finding the lost animals - outdoor role play

Day in the school – Year 2 GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration -Staged reading of story - Scavenger hunt - Creating environments in a box - Environmental issues - Campaigning

Secondary trainee teachers perspectives GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration Was this a useful experience working with YR, Y1 and Y2? Childrens enthusiasm

Questions - Early Years, Primary and Secondary collaborations When ?Who? What? Why? With what outcomes? Early Years/KS1 KS1/KS2 Secondary PGCE Secondary GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration Primary PGCE key

GTE Conference Swansea 27 th to 29 th January, Using texts as a stimulus for outdoor learning: an Early Years -Secondary Collaboration Acknowledgements: Thank you to : The staff and children at Manorbrook Pimary School, South Gloucestershire PGCE Secondary Geography trainee teachers (UWE ) Year 3 ITE Early Years student Lorraine Andrews (UWE )