During international week, year 3 visited China to learn all about the country and it’s culture. We had a great week. We learnt how to count. We tasted chinese food using chop sticks. We made fans, lanterns, dancing dragons and we drew and painted our own koi fish.
Today in Geography, Year 5 have been learning all about tornadoes. They have learnt about how tornadoes are formed and the effect that tornadoes can have in the areas that they occur in. In small groups, they followed a set of instructions to create their own tornado in a bottle. Read more…
This term in geography we are learning all about the UK. This week with have been learning all about the regions of England, in particularly the North West where we live. We have also been finding out about the counties in the North West, particularly Greater Manchester where we live. Read more…
Today we started our new topic for this half term, eating seasonally. The children began by thinking about what makes a healthy diet and how different foods can offer different nutrients. They completed a food pyramid to explore the different food groups such as protein, dairy and carbohydrates. We then Read more…
This term year one have been learning all about the local area, their homework task was to make a model of a structure from the local area. The work they produced has blown Miss Morris away. To celebrate their hard work, we held an exhibition for all classes and teachers Read more…
This half term in Year 6, we are learning all about rivers. To start off our new topic we looked at the water cycle. We used our own understanding and research of the water cycle to create a diagram and explanation in our books. Then we created our own water cycles Read more…
This afternoon we very sensibly stood outside school on the main road and took a survey of passing traffic. The children enjoyed calculating the variety of vehicle types and the different colours of vehicles. We discovered that the most common vehicle was a black car. The least common vehicle was Read more…
Today we have enjoyed a walk around our local area to help us develop knowledge for our topic ‘Houses and Homes’. The children enjoyed recognising familiar shops, streets and even some of their houses! We focused on developing knowledge about different types of houses such as terrace, detached, semi-detached, bungalow, Read more…
Today we have had a lovely last day making Kenya inspired mud huts using clay. We searched for sticks in the playground to make them realistic and we created lolly stick Masaai tribe characters. The children have been wanting to do this activity all term so it was amazing to Read more…
Year 2 have loved our Geography unit this term, we have been learning all about Kenya! We have found out about the Maasai Tribe culture and compared how people live in Kenya to how we live in the UK. We have looked at lots of different books that are based Read more…
This term in Geography Year 6 have been learning all about South America. To consolidate their learning each child created a double page fact file all about the continent’s landscape, human geographical features, exports and climate. Everyone really enjoyed the topic and produced fantastic fact files…have a look at some Read more…
This half term in Geography we are learning all about the UK. Our focus for this week was to find out about the 9 regions of England and some of the counties within each region. Not an easy concept to get your head around but the children did some great Read more…
We have been learning all about Kenya and the children have made their own necklace in the style of traditional African jewellery.
In Geography we have been learning about Kenya and thinking about the weather in Kenya. We created some pieces of art to demonstrate what the weather is like in Kenya.
In Geography this week, we have been looking at where our food comes from. We collected food packaging and worked out the distance it had travelled to be in our homes 🍏🍓🥝🍅. We also enjoyed the sunshine whilst learning☀️🌈.