Fieldwork Risk Assessment in Geography

1. Are we there yet?Getting ready for local fieldwork Our Risk Assessment

2. Learning Objectives • To know ways to stay safe when working out of doors • To be able to listen carefully and use notes to record important information • To use relevant geographical vocabulary Discuss these learning objectives. Do you know what they mean? Could you say this in a better way? What do you think the success criteria might be? Geography – sense of place, vocabulary development Literacy -Speaking and Listening & Note taking Citizenship & ECM- Staying safe & taking responsibility for ourselves

3. Look, listen, think, discuss…… • You are going to see some photographs of places we will be visiting. Listen while you are told something about each place then spend a couple of minutes discussing the key dangers or risks with your partner and what you could do to keep safe. • Note down your key findings. Listen to ideas from others and edit your notes if you want to change or add something.

4. www.multimap.comwww.streetmap.co.ukwww.earthgoogle.com • Use an internet mapping programme to locate places to be visited instead of or as well as your own pictures. • Choose either aerial / map view or hybrid (both). Sometimes a different scale and / or view can highlight different risks

5. 1 Arial view of area with Google Note for teachers – insert your own aerial image here from your locality – use a photograph of this same location in the next slide to show a different directional view (note the N in both slides).

6. 1 What are the risks? What action can we take to stay safe? E S Risk: moving cars Action: Look, listen & think. Stay close to adults N W Risk: falling over on bumpy, hard car park surface. Action: walk rather than run. Look carefully. Risk: steep, slippery slope Action: keep clear.

7. 2 Arial view via Google of Beach area to be visited Notes for teachers – Again insert your own local aerial view of a place you intend visiting. I chose this because it is where many of our pupils live – note the highlighted terrace house.

8. 2 What risks? What action can we take to stay safe? Note the same terrace house in the ground level view of this location Risk: hot sun can burn skin Action: sun cream and hats Risk: sharp objects and other rubbish on beach Action: check carefully before sitting down.

9. Notes to teachers • The previous four slides of hazards in the locality are good examples to use as a whole class discussion in order to get the pupils to understand what is expected and what the difference is between a ‘risk’ and an ‘action’. You can then insert some of your own locality photographs (with or without an accompanying aerial shot) and talk about the hazards whilst pupils listen. • For a good note taking activity ask pupils to work in pairs taking notes as you talk. Then give the partners a few minutes after each image to discuss the hazards outlined and the actions needed. • Before moving on to the next image, get feedback and consolidate knowledge i.e. what ‘good’ actions might be. Pupils amend their ideas if necessary. • Use a small number of images to suit your pupils’ age and ability. 3 – 4 images was just about right for year 3. • Continue with writing up risk assessment using appropriate writing frame.

10. Now write your own risk assessment from your notes • Use the writing frame provided or design your own • Check with your partner that you are writing the advice as clearly as possible • Are you identifying the names of landscape features correctly?

11. Keeping Safe What might be dangerous? What are the risks? 1_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How do we stay safe? What action can I take? 1_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14. Plenary • Swap your finished risk assessment with others on your table. • Can you suggest improvements? • Would you change yours? How? • What is the best example on your table and why? Have you achieved your learning objective? How do you know?

15. Finally…. What have we learnt in geography? • To be ready and responsible for fieldwork activities – an important part of geography. • New, relevant landscape vocabulary • How to begin to read the landscape and identify hazards and risks. • A greater sense of place through discussions about our locality. SKILLS: using geographical vocabulary, using images, asking questions, planning for fieldwork.