Geography
Locating rivers around the world
During our Geography lesson, we used atlases to locate and identify rivers from around the world, helping us develop our map-reading skills and improve our understanding of global geography.
Art & Design
Fieldwork
In Geography this half term, we have been focusing on fieldwork skills. As part of our learning, we explored directional language and practised using the points of a compass. Using an aerial map of Queen’s Park, we first completed a key and then answered questions about locations using the directions Read more
English
Fairytales
We introduced our new Fairytales topic this week and we have loved it so far. We have been playing with our new knights and castle, building our own fairytale houses and made a map using the construction equipment, like the one from the story of the Gingerbread Man. We acted Read more
Computing
Animals around the world
In Geography, we have been learning about animals from around the world. In today’s lesson, we used the internet to research a variety of animals in preparation for creating a fact file on a chosen animal next week. We explored key questions such as: “Where do they live?”, “What do Read more
French
All Around the World – French Week for Reception
Children really enjoyed French week. We learnt all about famous landmarks in France, along with where France is on the map. We looked at how we could get from England to France via the euro tunnel, ferry and aeroplane. We finished our week off by tasting some lovely French food. Read more
Art & Design
Year 5 Juniper Shared Learning
Thank you to all of the parents, guardians and family members that came to join Year 5 Juniper today, Tuesday 3rd February 2026. The children really enjoyed sharing all the information with their adults about our current Geography topic on Biomes. They were able to work together to create their Read more
Careers Related Learning
Urban Planning
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
Art & Design
Sycamore shared learning
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
Geography
Forest School Weather
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!
English
Year 1 Willows Shared 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.