A lively song teaching compass directions through repetition and rhythm to support geographical understanding.
year: Year 1
Teacher video: Playground designs
This video helps teachers guide pupils in proposing and presenting realistic improvements to their playground using fieldwork data.
Teacher video: Playground questionnaires
This Geography video supports teachers in guiding Year 1 pupils to explore playground spaces, collect and analyse feelings data, and consider improvements through enquiry-based fieldwork.
Teacher video: Drawing maps
This video supports teachers in introducing early mapping skills to KS1 pupils through collaborative map drawing, use of symbols and directional language.
Pupil video: Messy maps
This Geography video shows pupils creating a messy map of their classroom, using objects to represent features and practising directional language to explain their layout.
Teacher video: Messy maps
This video supports teachers in introducing aerial perspective and map symbols through collaborative 3D messy map activities using classroom objects.
Pupil video: My timeline
This Kapow pupil video is part of the Kapow History scheme of work. It helps pupils understand what a timeline is and how it shows events in the order they happened. Pupils learn that the word past describes things that have already happened, while the present is what’s happening now. Timelines always begin with now and go backwards into the past, helping us see how time passes.
Pupils are encouraged to create their own simple timelines, starting with the day they were born. They can add key moments like starting school, getting a pet, or beginning Year 1. This helps them understand that their own life has a history and introduces them to the idea of sequencing events in chronological order.
Teacher video: Remembrance overview
This History Kapow teacher video supports you in delivering a meaningful and inclusive series of Remembrance lessons across the primary age range. Linked to Remembrance Day, the collection encourages age-appropriate exploration of who we remember, how we remember them, and why this matters.
Pupil video: Remembrance day
This Kapow pupil video is part of the Kapow History scheme of work. It helps you understand why we mark Remembrance Day and who we are remembering.
Remembrance Day is a time to think about brave men and women who helped protect others during past wars, like the First and Second World Wars. We wear poppies to help us remember them and to say thank you. On this day, people across the country stop for a moment of silence to show respect and to honour those who risked or gave their lives to keep others safe.
