LAUNCH · Week 8 of 8

Maps, symbols and grid references

LAUNCH Humanities · Autumn 1 · Week 8 · 40 minutes

Progress SoW · Humanities Aut 1 · 2026–27 · LAUNCH · Week 8 · 'LAUNCH Weekly - Autumn'!C53
Verbatim workbook outcome: Use maps, OS symbols & grid references. · Trace: 'LAUNCH Weekly - Autumn'!C53
Today you annotate an extract: symbols labelled, features named, and a six-figure reference on each one.

Today at a Glance

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LAUNCH entry · label three symbols using the key · LAUNCH secure · label five with four-figure references · LAUNCH stretch · give six-figure references and say what each symbol does not tell you

◆ Supported

Three symbols labelled from the key.

▲ Standard

Five labelled with four-figure references.

★ Stretch

Five with six-figure references and one annotated limit.

Staff card: the extract is a printed sheet with its key attached; no learner is asked to mark where they live.
Staff and source drawer: the extract is a licensed teaching copy with its own key; sheet number and scale stay on the page so any reference can be checked.
Tool modal: the sort frames, the annotation grid and the print route all remain offline.

Teacher Print Tools — Week 8

SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

Space, voice, audience and influence together mean that you are given room to participate, that your contribution is received in the words you chose, that somebody listens to it with attention, and that one real decision changes as a consequence.
Arrival Task

Arrival Task – Retrieving how the grid works

Nobody marks where they live on the extract. The extract is a teaching sheet. No task asks for a home, and nothing said here leaves this room.
You can work with the key open. You can dictate and the words stay yours. You can point on the sheet instead of writing. Each is a full route.
Grid reference is the numbers that name a square, read along the bottom first and then up the side.

Read along the bottom first, then up the side. Along the corridor, then up the stairs.

On this sheet one grid square is one kilometre across, so a tenth of a square is a hundred metres on the ground. That is what the sixth figure is worth.

Arrival decision: Take the extract and the key. Everyone works from the same sheet.

Insist the key is consulted for each symbol. Confident guessing is the failure mode here and it looks identical to fluency.
SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

Starter

Starter: Two references for the same feature

Two learners give a reference for the same circled symbol.

Reference A: four figures, naming the square.

Reference B: six figures, naming a point inside it.

Both are correct. They are different resolutions, and which you need depends on what somebody has to find. At this scale, four figures put a person inside a square a kilometre across; six figures put them within about a hundred metres.

Take no reference aloud yet. Resolution is the judgement this lesson assesses.
SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

I Do

I Do: Reading a six-figure reference

The diagram divides one grid square into tenths both ways. The four-figure reference names the square; the extra digit on each pair names the tenth.

Modelled: the symbol sits in square 3421. Across, it is six tenths into the square, so 342 becomes 3426. Up, five tenths, so 21 becomes 215. Reference: 342 215.

Symbol is an agreed mark on a map that stands for one kind of feature.
Model the reversal deliberately. A learner who has seen it go badly wrong is far less likely to do it under pressure.
SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

We Do

We Do: Label the symbols. Annotate with references.

Symbol 1: what does the key say it is?

Symbol 3: four figures or six, and why?

Symbol 5: what does this symbol not tell you about the feature?

Label first: label all five symbols on your extract from the key, then annotate each with its grid reference. Everyone commits at the same time, and then we hold up the first reference together.

Have the class land on each reference. A reference nobody tests is an assertion.
SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

I Do

I Do: What a symbol does not tell you

The picture separates what a symbol carries from what it leaves out. The left box is the claim the map makes.

Saying what a source does not show is the same skill you used on written sources, applied to a map.

Annotated together: symbol four is a place of worship. What it does not tell us is whether it is in use, or how large the building is.

Connect this explicitly to the source work of the previous weeks; learners rarely transfer it to maps unless told to.
SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

We Do

We Do: Write what one symbol does not tell you

Everyone writes one limit on a whiteboard and we hold them up at the same time.

Scribe verbatim; the limit in the learner own words is the assessed evidence.
SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

Independent Work

Independent Work — Your record: the annotated extract

16:00

Your record is the annotated extract itself, plus the reference table beside it.

◆ Supported

Three symbols labelled from the key, scribing permitted.

▲ Standard

Five labelled with four-figure references.

★ Stretch

Five labelled with six-figure references and one annotated limit.

Check yourself: did you go along the bottom before up the side, every time?

Check yourself: is your resolution right for the size of the feature?

Record route and scribing on the evidence line, keeping adult support visible and separate from the learner own words.

⏸ Pens down — quick partner check!

Half way through: stop, swap with a partner, and check one thing on the list above together. Then carry on.

WAGOLL — what a good one looks like

A finished row: symbol three, place of worship with a tower, reference 342 215, six figures because it is one building and four would only narrow it to a square a kilometre wide. What it does not tell me: whether it is still in use, or how large it is.

SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

Lundy Loop

Lundy Loop — Your Voice in This Lesson

Why: SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

🚪 SPACE

Space ,

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

📣 VOICE

👥 AUDIENCE

⭐ INFLUENCE

SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

Exit Ticket

Exit Ticket — Audience receives; influence changes something

Read one reference to a partner without the label. They say what they landed on.

Did they land elsewhere? Recheck along before up and change your figures. That change is your influence.

Close by naming one learner whose reference was corrected by a partner landing elsewhere. That is the influence record.

✅ Complete

Hand in your record and tick the learner confirmation on your sheet. That is the lesson done.

SPACEVOICEAUDIENCEINFLUENCE

SPACE stays available, VOICE is received, AUDIENCE names back exactly and INFLUENCE changes one real next action.

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🧑‍🏫 TA Focus

LAUNCH Humanities · Week 8 · OS Map Skills: Unfamiliar Problem

ArrivalConnection before correction — settle first. Retrieval grid is level-toggled: set each pupil's level quietly, not publicly.StarterThe personal hook — let them talk about THEIR answer before the history. Everyone has one; pass still allowed.I Do ×1Pupils watch, you watch pupils. Note who tracks the reasoning — no interruptions yet.We Do ×1Tap-tap sort: click-only by design. Sit with whoever hesitates to start; wrong taps cost nothing.I Do ×2Second short model — if attention dipped, this is the reset point. Keep it under four minutes.We Do ×2Match round: use 🎯 Cold Call with band filter so questions are tier-matched. Reveal is always available.IndependentSupported/Standard/Stretch is per pupil, not per class. Print packs from the title slide; record exactly which level and what support.Lundy LoopSpace · Voice · Audience · Influence — scribe verbatim where you can; a quote beats a summary.ExitLevel-matched exit ticket, no notes. Flag anyone leaving dysregulated for check-out follow-up.
This lesson: Unfamiliar-problem week: resist rescuing. Structured struggle IS the lesson; log what unlocked each pupil.

🎯 Cold Call

Add your class once — names stay on this device only, and every Made by Matt lesson on it shares the list. Band each pupil so questions are tier-matched.

Pass is always allowed — passing still counts as taking part.