Well if you ask the children of New Marske Primary about careers and roles in Maritime around the River Tees, they will tell you, ‘You can work from home!’
We have just begin our in-school sessions for Tees Maritime using the resources that they funded to show children a) what goes on in a port and b) the roles that are connected to it. You can find the resources HERE
The pictures below are from our visit to New Marske Primary where the brilliantly engaged Y5 and 6 children worked through the various tasks using the videos as the backbone of the narrative. This is a project I have been trying to establish for several years. Many of the videos Spark makes are designed to be embedded in the curriculum; short, sharp and used to add context and quality to what schools are already teaching. But it is clear that port operations, the story of ‘cargo,’ fits very clearly with the KS2 geography curriculum:
Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
Being able to put that into a succinct lesson narrative has always been a challenge but some of the brilliant companies who work in Maritime locally stepped forward to showcase what really happens in a way that works brilliantly for primary children. Obviously Spark sprinkled some of our fairy dust on it as well ; )
So the children learned about some of the key stages that cargo goes through to reach us in the shops (or wherever it needs to get to). In a two hour session it can’t ever be the full story and we’ve added extra resources for schools to take it further if they want to. But after watching the videos and being guided by the tasks we created (Robot tankers anyone?), the children were pretty much spot on with their recap answers about each stage. We will be running these sessions throughout the academic year so if any schools would like us to come and work with your children, just yell.
