Today we looked at different Mountains around the world. We talked about which continent you would find them in, the mountain group or range they were part of, the country you would find them in and a fun fact. Did you know that every year, around 1000 people try to Read more
Maple have been busy designing and making their own mountain ranges. Excellent teamwork and a super effort to produce some amazing work. Ask the children at home if they know some of the mountain ranges of the world and which continents they are in!
Year 4 Hawthorn have shown some fantastic team work during out D&T lessons. They worked in groups to create their mountain structures. Some of their ideas didn’t go to plan, but they didn’t give up and used some brilliant problem solving. How amazing do our finished mountains look!
Hawthorn enjoyed a lesson of discovering on Friday afternoon. We went outside for our Geography lesson. We worked with a partner to read the information on mountains which helped us to answer lots of questions.
Maple enjoyed a lesson of discovering this afternoon. Working with a partner, they read the information on mountains and decided on the answers to the questions set for them. Excellent detective work everyone!
Wow, What a lovely week we have had! This week we were reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and did lots of activities surrounding the story. We painted rocks to make them look like ladybirds, made farms and maps and did some Maths sorting activities in the classroom. In the story Read more
As part of creating an information booklet on food chains and webs of the Arctic regions, Year 6 looked at how artists use accurate guidelines and proportions when sketching. They looked at how to use simple shapes to help guide them to sketching an accurate outline, as well as Read more
Maple enjoyed a very special lesson with their parents this morning. We began by finding out which continents of the world some famous mountain ranges were found in. The children and their parents then wrote some amazing descriptive sentences about mountains and their surroundings.
Last week we created prototypes and designs for our Mountain models. Today was the fun part! We showed some fantastic team work as we started to create our mountain structures using cups and Papier- Mache although I think there was more glue on some of our hands than there was Read more
Year 6 have been studying the physical geography of both the Arctic and Antarctica. After looking at how some animals have adapted to be able to survive there, we then looked at how we can construct food chains to identify predators, prey, primary and secondary consumers and producers. We tracked Read more