As part of our careers related learning, we used our recent traffic survey to take the role of an urban planner, tasked with deciding where houses, parks, schools and roads should be built. We looked at the traffic on Queen’s Park Road and if the town could have been designed Read more…
Thank you to those parents and family members who were able to attend our shared learning. After introducing our Geography topic, Fieldwork, we set children and adults the task of producing a poster to be displayed at the front of school to try and make Queen’s Park Road safer for Read more…
We have loved taking our Geography learning about weather outdoors into our Forest school lessons. Take a look at our lesson about wind, in which we made wind-catchers, and our lesson on rain, in which we made umbrellas. We are really enjoying our outdoor learning!
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our shared learning today. The children loved demonstrating our knowledge of seasons, singing our seasons song to you, and having your support in writing sentences.
In Geography this half term, Year 5 have been focusing on slums – particularly Dharavi in Mumbai, India and Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Today, we working in groups to figure out what were the biggest challenges faced by people living in slums – sanitation, education, crime, jobs, health Read more…
We had a fantastic day celebrating European Day of Languages! We began the morning by enjoying a delicious croissant while listening to some traditional French music. Afterwards, we explored the amazing diversity of languages and cultures around the world and within our own classroom. Using a map, we located different Read more…
This afternoon Year 5 Pine enjoyed our first forest school session. We incorporated our skills builder lessons into the session and focused on teamwork and leadership skills. Using the information they have learnt in Geography the children worked together to build slum shelters. We also made Christian value rocks that Read more…
This half term, Year 1 are learning about weather patterns during our geography lessons. So far we have learnt about weather patterns and how they differ from inland and costal areas. We have studied pictograms to see how the weather differs during different seasons of the year too. Today. We Read more…
Year 4 went to Queen’s Park today to look at the River Roch as a part of our Geography lesson. We looked at both the physical and human features that we could see along the river. We looked at how the river meandered and anny erosion we could see. Sadly, Read more…
Year 1 had lots of fun on their school trip to the farm. We had a donkey ride, fed the donkeys , sheep and goats, met and held baby animals, watched the cows being milked and played on the park.