Geography

As part of our Everybody’s Earth topic, the children have been busy designing and making theirown model electric vehicles. Linking closely with our Geography learning, the project has helpedpupils understand […] […]

In Geography, we have completed our theme ‘Everybody’s Earth. We began our learning by considering settlements and where they are located – in the past and today. We designed our […] […]

Shackadell class loved celebrating World Book Day. The whole school theme was “Around the world”. The children were each given a passport and visited different countries in different classrooms throughout […] […]

In line with our geography topic on China we have been learning about a Chinese installation artist/sculptor named Yin Xiuzhen. Our unit is called ‘Where is in your suitcase?’ It […] […]

We have been reading Julia Donaldson’s poem version of The Magic Paintbrush. This fits in with our geography topic on China, as it is based on a traditional Chinese folk […] […]

We have been learning about the four countries in the UK. We have looked at traditional foods from these places and put them onto a map. We ended our unit […] […]

We have been learning so much about animals! Following on from our trip to the allotments to find out about local wildlife, we have been learning all about wildlife in […] […]

We have been thinking a lot about our local area and the environment we live in. We have been talking about the kinds of plants and animals that live in […] […]

Shackadell loved spending time working on our World Book Day book – ‘Here we are’ by Oliver Jeffers. We thought about things we find in space, in the sea, on […] […]

Danes and Puddlebridge classes enjoyed an exciting day at the Natural History Museum to enrich our geographical learning. We began the day exploring different areas of the museum before heading […] […]

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We were excited to go on an Autumn walk around the village and invited our grown-ups to come in and join […] […]

As part of our geographical learning, we enjoyed a walk to the River Beane. This gave us an opportunity to observe, discuss and embed many aspects of our learning about […] […]

When we went into the Forest School area last week we noticed that something had been digging up the ground. We decided to investigate and try and find out what […] […]

What a fantastic day Years Four, Five and Six had visiting Tower Bridge! This visit supported our learning in Geography and DT. In Geography, our focus is Rivers so it […] […]

As part of our learning in geography about North America, we worked in pairs to carry out our own enquiry about different North American capital cities. We made a class […] […]

Between the 8th January and 19th February Shackadell will be taking part in the RSPB’s Big School’s Bird Watch. We have been looking at different types of birds and how […] […]

We have been reading Christmas books all about posting – “The Jolly Postman” and “Paddington’s Christmas post”. This week we created our own Christmas cards for our parents. We were […] […]

Hot and Cold Places In Haffydown, we have had a fun start to our Geography lessons this side of Christmas! Our learning so far has covered the 7 continents, the […] […]

Our Local Area We looked at some of the different types of maps people use. We then saw an aerial photograph of our school and made a sketch map of […] […]

We are learning about China this half term. We can use an atlas to locate major cities and rivers. We are looking at bordering countries, seas and oceans. We are […] […]

As part of our learning about Antarctica, the children created a model of an iceberg and explained how it forms from a glacier. They used vocabulary such as glaciers, icebergs, […] […]

Puddlebridge and Danes classes had a fantastic day out at the Natural History Museum to support our ‘Extreme Earth’ topic. We started the day by exploring the Volcanoes and Earthquakes […] […]

In geography this term, we will be learning about geological forces from deep within the Earth. We will find out about volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. As part of […] […]

This term our historical and geographical learning will be based around our topic, ‘Brave and Beautiful Britain’. During the first half term, we will be learning all about the Second […] […]