With HMS Endurance as part of the Ship’s Company this deployment is Anchor Bear.
Anchor Bear doing a weather forecast on HMS Endurance
Anchor is the Ship’s mascot and he is an experienced bear, with lots of global travels under his belt. Anchor Bear’s adventures on HMS Endurance will form part of our National Curriculum supporting material for Key Stage 1 through Anchor’s online diary of his travels to Antarctica and supporting worksheets.
At the centre of the Citizenship curriculum at Key Stage 1 are children’s ideas and feelings about how they relate to their environment, both within their own communities and in the wider world. Young children need to identify and respect similarities and differences between people. They also need to understand that people and other living things have needs, and that we all have responsibilities to meet them.
These aims of Citizenship and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) strongly overlap and complement the Geography curriculum at Key Stage 1. Teachers might like to encourage their classes to have their own teddy bear to take on the role of Anchor Bear or a child to role play the part of Anchor Bear.