This week we have been learning about the New Year Celebrations. We have talked about what we did with our families for New Year and found out about some of the celebrations that happen around the world. We watched London’s celebrations, counting down with Big Ben and enjoying the fantastic firework display. We then all…
The children enjoyed watching the England World Cup game against Iran this week. They came in their England colours to support the national team. On Thursday, children watched Mr Mellor’s assembly all about the World Cup and the countries competing in it. They were intrigued to learn about many of the nations and particularly astonished…
In celebration of the World Cup, Reception have been finding out about several countries: Senegal, Ghana, France and Uruguay. We found these countries on the world map then discovered that the Eiffel Tower is in France, French is spoken in Senegal, cacao beans come form Ghana and Uruguay is in South America. We can’t wait…
This week the children enjoyed a trip to Rio de Janerio. They had their passports and boarding passes ready and listened carefully to the inflight safety video. During their trip, they enjoyed making and tasting Pão de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread), creating carnival masks, learning some Samba moves and were invited to Rio carnival. …
In year two, we have been learning the names of the continents and oceans. As a final task, children drew and labelled the continents and oceans on their very own globe balloon. Well done for trying to be as accurate as possible.
This week, we’ve had a super time in our geography learning! As a flashback, we had a tour of the world identifying several continents, countries and oceans along the way. Then we continued our learning within our volcanoes and earthquakes unit as we explored the impact of tectonic plates and the key features of a…
Year One have visited Milton this week as part of their learning in Geography about the local area. They studied the houses and buildings, visiting the florist, park and chippy! 🌲 They also completed a traffic survey and found that cars were the most popular vehicle 🚗 It was amazing to study our local area…
This week we have been looking at our houses on google maps, we have spotted out house and talked about who lives there with us. We have then been busy creating a picture of our house thinking about what colour it is and what colour door we have? The children have been amazed to see…
In Geography we’ve being spying and spotting in our school grounds! 🕵️♀️ We talked about rural and urban areas and then thought that where we live is a mixture of the two (although mostly urban but we do have lots of fields and it isn’t far to the countryside!) 🍃 We then found different shapes,…
Year Three have been learning about South America. They used atlases to locate the different countries and capital cities. Over the next few weeks, we will be looking more closely at Brazil.