Key Stage 1
Going to East Midlands
'Going to East Midlands Airport' is an educational resource which can be used on interactive boards in the classroom. This is a great, fun resource to help pupils to understand the processes and procedures which take place every day at an airport.
Going to East Midlands Airport
Big Book – More than an Airport
With illustrations, photographs and lively text, this non-fiction Big Book, written for KS2 but also relevant for KS1, introduces young readers to Manchester Airport.
Contents include:
- history of the Airport
- the Airport's layout, including an aerial photograph
- how passengers and luggage are processed
- environmental initiatives, specifically in connection with the second runway.
- examples of signs used in the public areas and lots more
There are opportunities to introduce work on words, sentences and both fiction and non-fiction texts. National Curriculum links are clearly identified.
To download a PDF of More than an Airport please click here.
The Curriculum Takes Off
An exciting resource pack which has been produced as part of a Collaboration between the airport, LEA advisers and local primary teachers. The pack is full of schemes of work designed by teachers to support the literacy strategy, for Key Stages 1 and 2, primarily focusing on Geography, exploring links with Literacy and, in particular, the different writing genres.
To download a PDF of The Curriculum Takes Off please click here.
Let's Play Airports
Many nurseries, schools and youth organisations contact us for advice and materials to be used in role play. This pack gives everything you need to bring an airport into your environment with tickets, signs and posters which you can download to make play informative and fun. We would love to see how you use this pack please send us your photographs to include in the gallery - wendy.sinfield@manairport.co.uk
The pack is split into three downloadable compressed zip files. Please click on the links below to download