Blog by Tag: Geography

Today we went on our first class trip since the COVID outbreak.   Hurrah!!  We travelled to Beacon Fell and learnt all about how to survive in the wild.  We have been reading Kensuke's Kingdom in school and had already picked up some great survival tips from that.  We found out more about how best…

When we went on out autumn walk, we spotted the green leaves that had fallen down and collected cookers in their spikey casing.

When we came to see the tree in winter, we saw it had lost most of it’s leaves. 
 

Today we came back too see if had changed. We could now see big brown buds at…

Today we started our new maths topic all about statistics.  We thought about making tally charts to show different information and created our own tally charts to show our favourite fruit, and to show what passed by the front of school.

We each chose a country in Europe to research. We had to find out lots of facts about that country, such as the size, the population and the language. We also found out what foods were eaten there and if any famous people were born in that country. We also made the flag too.

We have been using the atlases to locate the countries in Europe and their capital cities. 

In our geography lessons, we have been learning about Europe. We had to find the answers to questions about Europe that were placed around our playground. We had lots of fun finding the answers and keeping fit. 

Look how much water we have collected this week! We will be monitoring how much rainfall we get in the coming months and also look at the temperature. 

This week, Year 5 went to Lune aqueduct. We learnt more about its history and also went pond dipping. We finished the trip with a McFlurry (a highlight for some of us!).