Anchor Bear – Key Stage 1
With HMS Endurance as part of the Ship’s Company this deployment is Anchor Bear.
Anchor is the Ship’s mascot and is an experienced bear, with lots of global travels under his belt. Anchor Bear’s adventures on HMS Endurance form part of our National Curriculum supporting material for Key Stage 1 through a photographic diary of his travels 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.
Our aim is to teach children about the Earth, its surface, the way it changes and try our best to make it interesting, well presented and very close to being funny – so children actually enjoy using our Key Stage 1 information.
Factfiles - Key Stage 2 and 3
Within the content of the website’s factfiles is information to support sections of the Key Stage 2 and 3 Geography, Science and Citizenship curriculum.
We aim to provide material that allows pupils to investigate a variety of people, places and environments. By starting to make links between different places in the world, pupils can enhance their understanding of their everyday lives and develop an appreciation of their responsibilities to other people and to the environment through geographical knowledge and real world issues.