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**Lyfta core themes:** Community and Citizenship, Natural Environment. **Lyfta core skills and values:** Active Citizenship, Collaboration and Teamwork, Conflict Resolution, Decision making, Resilience and Perseverance. **SDGs:** 1, 2. **National Curriculum objectives:** KS2 Geography Ge2/1.1a. to locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities Ge2/1.3b to describe and understand key aspects of 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. KS2 English To retrieve, record and present information from a non-fiction text To use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas. KS2 Citizenship 2e. to reflect on spiritual, moral, social, and cultural issues, using imagination to understand other people's experiences 2j. that resources can be allocated in different ways and that these economic choices affect individuals, communities and the sustainability of the environment across the world 4b. to think about the lives of people living in other places and times, and people with different values and customs. KS2 PSHE R31. to recognise the importance of self-respect and how this can affect their thoughts and feelings about themselves; that everyone, including them, should expect to be treated politely and with respect by others (including when online and/or anonymous) in school and in wider society; strategies to improve or support courteous, respectful relationships, R32. about respecting the differences and similarities between people and recognising what they have in common with others e.g. physically, in personality or background, R33. to listen and respond respectfully to a wide range of people, including those whose traditions, beliefs and lifestyle are different to their own.