We have North, East, South & West.  Just as important is learning left, right, forwards & backwards are even more essential as they are used daily & are a daily lifeskill.

Getting used to the area & locations that you live in are important.  Say for instance face the direction of the sea or face the direction the sun rises are all the little steppingstones to get used to your own what I call MIND MAPPING!

We need to get Back to Basics in the way we learn navigation.  I have been instructing navigation for 10 years but practicing it for 27 years!!  When ever asked I always tell children I am 27-year-old and then I’m told I’m younger than their parents!!‘I can’t do that’

Saying the words ‘we are learning Navigation today’!  The look on their faces as they say ‘err that’s maps & compasses’ or ‘err I can’t do that its to hard’.   And from adults ‘my sense of direction is terrible’.  Well let’s start from the beginning and I will give you what I instruct & share in schools, clubs & even for adults.

It’s the little steps and the principal of what I instruct and the philosophy of Back to Basics is that small steps are essential to build knowledge.  I hear this a lot from educators, ‘you can’t build a house on sand’  * thank you Mr Young.

Everyone can navigate and you navigate every day and you are all brilliant at it.  When you woke this morning, nobody went into the kitchen to have a WEE.  No one went into the bathroom to eat BREAKFAST.   We all have a mind map a sense of direction that is given to us and engrained and developed in the areas we visit.

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