Geography in Reception

This week we have been creating our own maps for our journey to school. We have included lots of features that you would see on a real map such as roads, houses, shops and rivers.

Year One visit to Peak Wildlife Park

Year One went to visit Peak Wildlife Park where they saw lots of interesting animals linked to their learning! They spied penguins and polar bears linked to their geography and talked about animal types and what they ate linked to science too, listening to a keeper talk about lemurs and wallabies! 🐧🐻‍❄️ We were so […]

Year Five Visit Peak Wildlife Park

This week, Year Five visited Peak Wildlife Park to supplement their learning within science. Whilst there, they learnt all about the different animals and how Peak Wildlife Park care for them. Most importantly, the children considered the different points of the lifecycles which the animals were in and how the lifecycles of the animals were […]

Boris (and Nursery) goes Camping! 🏕

This week we have read the story ‘Boris Goes Camping’ and taken our learning outside, pretending we are on a camping adventure too! We have been catching butterflies, painting with mud, using chalk, having pooh stick races, colouring paper ready to decorate our big teepee and reading stories in the little teepee. We have been […]

Around the world with Reception

This week Reception have been reading the story of A Walk in Paris. We found where France was on the map, created our own French flags and completed a map of the world jigsaw.

Geography Comparisons in Year One

This week we’ve been finding out more about Antarctica and the Arctic and have been comparing them to where we live in the UK. 🌎 We’ve thought about climate, weather, how many people live there (population) and why. We’ve also talked about human and physical features and have started to find out about the animals. […]

Map work in Reception

This week we have been reading the story of What the Ladybird Heard. We studied the map of the farmyard and created our own focussing closely on the farmyard features such as the pond, the barns and the fields. We think that we have made a fantastic job of it 😁

Year Four artists

Our Year Four children have created some very effective collages based around the theme of rivers and water after studying work by the American artist, Robin Brooks. They applied a range of techniques including colour mixing, painting, cutting, tearing, arranging and fixing.

Tracing Viking Territories in Year Five

This week in our history lesson, we identified former Viking territories using modern-day maps. To do this, we learnt all about suffixes which were associated with Viking legacies and researched the meaning behind these. It was lovely to see the children combining their history and geography skills together.

Year Four Enrichment Day

This week, our Year Four children have spent a day in our woodland area, appreciating nature, learning how to care for the environment and discovering what lives in our school grounds, as well as developing their resilience, collaborative and risk taking skills. We finished the day with s’mores, cooked on our campfire 🔥!