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title: "Year 1 Geography- Ordnance Survey Map Symbols"
url: "https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2025-05-19-year-1-geography-ordnance-survey-map-symbols"
school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy"
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# Year 1 Geography- Ordnance Survey Map Symbols

  ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/images/news/IMG_0941.jpeg)   19 May 2025

This afternoon in geography, Year 1 explored ordnance survey map symbols such as a school, place of worship, police station and post office. They really enjoyed trying to figure out what each of the symbols meant to match them correctly. They then explored an ordnance survey map of our local area and highlighted the symbols that they could find. They found several schools, footpaths, main roads, foot bridges and cemeteries.
![](https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/images/news/IMG_0941.jpeg)

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