Year 3 have been busy learning about rural and urban areas as part of their geography topic. They began by exploring what these terms mean and identifying rural and urban areas from photographs. They then compared old and modern maps of Harlow Green, discovering how our surroundings have change
This week in Year 5, the children have continued their Geography unit by exploring biomes. Building on their prior learning, the children revisited the difference between weather and climate, and identified the range of climates found across the Earth. They were then introduced to the concept of bio
This week in Year 4 we have been learning all about mountain regions as part of our geography learning! The children investigated how mountains are formed and discovered some of the highest points in the UK, including Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon. We also had some thoughtful discussions abo
This week, our Reception class enjoyed a delightful experience focused on the Lunar New Year. The children had the chance to taste a variety of traditional Chinese foods, such as noodles with chopsticks, crispy spring rolls, and prawn crackers. This culinary adventure allowed them to explore and app
Year 4 have enjoyed the start of their Geography topic this half term, all about mountains. To begin with, we have learned about how the structure of the Earth affects its features. Carefully, using pieces of paper, they demonstrated how the Earth’s tectonic plates can move in different ways to cr
This week in Reception, we have been learning all about our local area as part of our topic on Journeys. The children became keen observers as they carried out a traffic survey, watching the dual carriageway from the school fence and using tally charts to record the different types of transport they
In Geography, Year Two have been learning all about life in rural Uganda and have compared this to their life here in the UK. To begin, the children learned what rural and urban areas are. They sorted pictures to explain that a rural area is the countryside, whereas an urban area is a town or city.
This week, in Geography, we started our new unit of ‘Human and Physical Geography within a region of South America and the UK’. The children started the topic by locating South America on a world map. Once we had located South America, we took a closer look at the countries within it, focusing o
All of the children in Year One were excited to start their new topic of Houses and Homes. We started off the week by looking at photos and pictures of different kinds of houses. The children loved showing their class photos of their house and we learnt the names of different kinds of houses – det
The Reception children rounded off their first week of term with a virtual workshop from the Postal Museum, kindly supported by Royal Mail. The session was based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, and the class followed along as our jolly postie guided them through a simple retelling o
