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Key Stage 3 and 4
Surely a child's development is more than about working to the national curriculum - it is about personal development in a much wider and social context.However, organising trips away for Key Stage 3 and 4 pupils takes a huge amount of school resources. We can help ease the strain with our local knowledge, assistance in programming and professional leadership in activities.
The Charterhouse Experience is for:
- Year 7 team building
- Year 8 Geography field trips
- Pupil enrichment weeks
- Out of school clubs
- Expedition work particularly for Ten Tors and DofE
We guess that those of you reading this far are as keen about the outdoors as we are. If your pupils have specific curriculum needs that can be met more efficiently with a field trip, we can help.
Most of our programmes are cross-curricular in the activities we deliver, but the following gives an example of the way in which we can nail down tricky units.
| Opportunities at Key Stage 3 and 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Subject | Unit | Information |
| Art | What's in a building? | Cast study of Charterhouse |
| Recreating landscapes | Charterhouse environment has a lasting effect whatever your perspective! | |
| Geography | Limestone landscapes of England | Exploration and investigation into the Mendip Hills AONB |
| PE | Outdoor activities | Introduction, intermediate and advanced units |
| Developing new skills to explore unfamiliar environments: orienteering, climbing, caving, expeditions, bushcraft, night hikes | ||
| Science | Ecological relationships | Habitat studies |
| Identification and population sizes | ||
| Predator prey relationships | ||
| Environment and feeding relationships | Food chains and food webs | |
| Adaptation for habitats | ||
| Scientific enquiries | ||
| Variation and classification | Causes of variation | |
| Sorting groups | ||
| The Rock Cycle | Field visits to explore Mendip karst scenery | |
| Seashore visits to the Severn estuary | ||
| Geological processes | ||
| Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks | ||
| Oolithic and Carboniferous Limestone | ||
| Rocks and weathering | Field visits looking at the denuded anticline of Mendip | |
| Comparing the texture of old Red sandstone and limestone | ||
| Processes in limestone formation | ||
| Fossil hunting | ||
| Energy Resources | Fossil fuels and renewable energy | |
| Implications for the environment | ||
| Energy for life | ||
| The sun | ||
| The solar system and beyond | Cosmic rambles and observations using telescopes and binoculars | |
| The sun and stars, star colours | ||
| Planets and our solar system | ||
| Galaxies and our local neighbourhood | ||
| Observations and recording | ||
| Light pollution | ||