Geography
Geography at Stockton Wood is dynamic, stimulating and most of all fun to learn. It is open to new ideas and cultures. Geography is a tool to aid the children to see where they, their society and different cultures came from. To recognize that land and communities developed over time and that they continue to develop. That people can create or destroy this planet. Used correctly the children can make a better world through what they have learned.
Early Years
Learn their place in the world that they live in Speke. That Speke is part of a wider community. They learn simple directions. They will explore the natural world using their senses and will begin to ask questions about the world.
Key Stage 1
They will be able to draw simple maps and place themselves on a map of the UK. They will use NSEW and simple coordinates for directions. They will look at the world and investigate their surroundings making observations.
Key Stage 2:
They will recognize their position in Europe and the world. They will know 6 points of the compass and use 6 figure grid references. They will initiate questions about their world and the environment and will investigate contrasting environments in greater depth, analyzing evidence and drawing conclusions.
See Stockton Wood’s Geography Curriculum Progression by clicking here
Geography Chatter
Year 4 Big Friday Quiz
Year 4’s Big Friday Quiz is a hit!
We love earning dojos when we successfully retrieve and recall our previous learning.
5D computing 💻🪐
This week, 5D have been creating their own databases full of fascinating information about Space. They have worked incredibly hard to organise, input and present their information clearly, creating some fantastic and beautifully presented databases!
This learning has also linked closely with our English work, where we have been writing about Mars. The children have enjoyed researching and collecting interesting facts to support their writing, while developing their computing skills at the same time. We have been very impressed with the effort and creativity shown by 5D!
5D – Finding Viking names! 🗺🌏
In History this week, we were locating towns in Britain with names that originated from the Vikings. Everyone worked really hard using their atlases!
Martin Mere
Year 4 had lots of fun at Martin Mere. We explored the wetlands, seen lots of wildlife and went pond dipping. What a fabulous end to the year.
Mediterranean Countries
In Geography, we used a map to locate all the countries surrounding the Mediterranean.
The Storm Whale
This half term Reception are reading and exploring the book ‘The Storm Whale’. Our story friends have helped us to explore what animals live in the ocean and on the shore.
Year 3 Geography
3McK enjoyed working together to research the Mediterranean country of Greece. We then used this information to create a fact file.
Year One – Geography
We have enjoyed learning all about our local area of Speke and how shopping has changed over time.
Blossom
It’s that time of year again, when Mrs Clovis looks out of her window to see Mrs Ritchie shaking the trees…but what fun we had catching the blossom! We talked about the changes that spring brings, especially to our trees.
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5D geography
The children have been looking at sustainable tourism around North America. They were using top trump cards to learn about tourist locations and then created fact files on 2 of their favourites.
Year 3 Geography
3McK have enjoyed learning about OS Maps in geography this half term. We have looked at using a key for a map, 4-figure grid references, as well as looking at rivers and counties.
Meet our new bird friends
Whilst playing outside, we noticed a birds nest! It was very small to begin with but we quickly noticed it was getting bigger. So we sat patiently and watched to see if we could spot the birds that were building the nest and soon enough, two big crows 🐦⬛ flew into the nest with sticks in their beaks! They spent some time adding their new sticks to their nest before flying off again. We spent ages just watching and waiting for them to come back. We really hope we will soon have some baby birds to watch out for 🥰 isn’t Spring a wonderful time!
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Spring Walk
Reception have been learning all about the season spring. We went on our own spring walk to document the changes that the new season brings. We saw flowers blooming, cherry blossoms, daffodils, daisies, bees, birds and lots of mini beasts.
Where does our food come from?
We have been using maps to help us understand where our food comes from.
Tourism in North America
5H looked at different tourist attractions in North America, in Geography, distinguishing between physical landmarks and human landmarks. They used ipads and laptops to create a tourism fact file about these locations.
Geography in year 5
This week 5H used maps and atlas’ to explore the different climates of North America and compare these to those in Great Britain.
Year 5 Geography
Year 5 used Google to help them locate North America on a map and research interesting facts about the continent.
Geography
This week in Geography, we explored globes to see what countries we could find, located capital cities and used a map to find rivers in the U.K.
Chinese New Year
This week Reception is exploring Chinese New Year. We have made Chinese temples in our construction area, made Chinese lanterns and made Chinese dragons.
