Geography activities for residentials | Group bookings

Bring the great outdoors to life with our popular KS2 Geography packages.

Pupils have an ideal opportunity to carry out fieldwork as covered in the National Curriculum while getting hands on with the world around them. YHA’s locations are ideally suited for making the most of England’s human and physical landforms. Our residential packages offer a range of educational activities including: detailed work on map skills, navigation work, GPS trails, river investigations, river stream studies and tourism.

Our experienced staff will guide your pupils to make the most of all the sites of interest that are on our doorstep. Plus, thanks to the location of our hostels, no additional travel or transport costs will be required during your residential – helping make our packages great value for money.

Full board from

£55.33

Per person, per night (excluding VAT)

Activities

May include (subject to availability and location):

Fossil hunting
GPS orienteering
GPS trails
Guided walks
Map work
Navigation
River studies
Tourism investigation
Village studies

Learning outcomes

To demonstrate the ability to listen and act accordingly to instructions.
To demonstrate the key personal skills of resilience and self-motivation.
To show an awareness and understanding of environmental issues and the impact that we can have both as individuals and as communities at a local, regional and national level.
To collect primary field data and demonstrate the ability to measure, record and present field work for a variety of human and physical features.
To demonstrate an understanding of the use of maps, with particular reference to OS maps including the use of symbols, scale and both four and six figure grid references.
To begin to understand the use of compasses include the eight core directional points and where applicable begin to understand the use of other devices such as GPS.
To begin to gain an understanding of a variety of human and physical features including rivers, mountains and different settlement types.

What you need to know

All of our in-house activities are delivered by trained, DBS-checked staff who are skilled at leading engaging residentials that are tailored to meet the needs of your group.