Blog by Tag: Geography

Year 6 went for a local history walk today. As we walked into town, we compared a modern OS map of Lancaster with one from 1610. We walked to the Castle via Penny Street and Church Street, both of which were built more than 400 years ago (appearing on the 1610 map). We learnt how the castle has…

We were so excited all afternoon after catching a glimpse of this. The sun shone as we watched the dance on the playground and learnt a little more about China. 

We have found out things about Indonesia this week. We have learnt that this is the only area in the world where Komodo dragons live in the wild. We had a go at weaving after looking at photos of children weaving cloth.

We have had an amazing day tasting different foods from different countries. We listened to music from different countries and dressed up too. 

Jambo! Today we had a wonderful visitor - Peter - who is a wildlife photographer. He lives in Kenya and told us all about some of the animals that he has encountered there. He has zebras outside his house who eat his grass every day so he doesn’t need a lawnmower!  He told us about the mountain…

We have enjoyed travelling to Africa this afternoon. We designed African masks and Peter came in to talk about African wildlife. We had an amazing time!

It was lovely to have Isabella's mum come into school today to teach us some Chinese words and tell us the story behind the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac.  We found out that all the children in the class were either born in the year of the rooster or the year of the monkey.  We then had a go at…

We had a fantastic day today, visiting Williamson Park. We visited the Butterfly House where we learned about the life cycle of butterflies and also different habitats. It was a chance to experience the conditions in a rainforest, which is our current geography topic.  We also handled some of the…

In our geography lessons we have been looking at the UK and our local area. 
 

After a very warm walk to Williamson’s Park, we did some sketch drawings from the Ashton Memorial and spoke about human and physical features of Lancaster. 
We then had a walk around Friend’s Garden and had our…

Year 4 learned all about rivers earlier in the year, but today they had the chance to take a journey down the River Lune, from its source at Newbiggin-on-Lune in Cumbria all the way down to the estuary beyond Glasson Dock. We started off at St. Helen's Well - the source of the Lune - just outside…

Until the end of the year, our geography topic is the UK. Within this we will be practicing our map reading skills. Today we went outside to confirm our knowledge of an 8 point compass. We had a leader read aloud compass points and we had to throw the beanbag in the correct hula hoop. 
 

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We have been busy collecting labels from food and other products which have been bought by our families. Today we used Digimaps to help us calculate how far these products have had to be transported before reaching our local shops. Some had travelled thousands of miles, whereas others were sourced…