Y3 have been learning about the different types of volcanoes and how active volcanoes erupt. We learnt about how the earth builds up pressure which affects the Earth’s crust, so that magma can sometimes erupt through it. We then took our learning outside and created our own class volcano to watch how when pressure builds it causes an eruption.
Y3 had so much for today looking at the different layers of the Earth. We created our own Earth to show all of the layers. We created the inner core then covered it with the Earths outer core, mantle then finally the Earth’s crust. We then compared the layers of the Earth to a peach. We looked at the inside of a peach and imagined the peach’s stone was the Earth’s core, the surrounding soft bit of the peach is like the Earth’s mantle filled with magna and finally the skin is like the Earth’s crust.
In year 4, we’ve been developing our map reading skills to explore places around the world. We can identify the equator, the prime meridian as well as lines of longitude and latitude. We investigated places found between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
Check out a couple of our brilliant posters about places found in the tropics.
Y3 enjoyed a walk up to the top of Cleadon Hills as part of our current Geography Topic. We looked at what local landmarks we could see from the very top – we were able to see as far as Penshaw monument! In the distance we could also spy the Northern Spire Bridge, the pier and lots of our coastline including Souter lighthouse! We noticed that the higher we walked the windier it was but the sights were very clear.
In Y6 this half term we are learning all about rivers. We have been using UK atlases and World atlases to find rivers. We have used the index and the located the rivers using coordinates, identifying the river sources, tributaries and the river mouth.
In Geography this half term we are looking at the UK in detail specifically building on on map work knowledge.
In this week’s lesson we looked at the countries the UK is made up from and then looked at which cities are part of those countries.
We used a map compass to find out which direction each of the cities were in on the map – We knew that the Newcastle was up North on the Map because we live in the North East. We knew London would be at the bottom on the map because we knew it was ‘down South’. We found it really interesting finding our way from one city to another using Google Maps and the atlas map to check our directions were correct!
In geography, we looked at what makes a good settlement. We compared different settlements according to how much access they had to fuel, food and water supplies. We used maps to locate places and see how people travel between settlements. We then made our own maps to represent our own town or city.
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This half term we have been learning all about Space. We started off by finding out which planet we live on, planet Earth! We used Google Earth, found Harton Primary School and zoomed all the way out until we were in space. Look at our amazing Earth paintings. We included land and sea.
This week Y3 were set a DT project linked to our Geography topic ‘The Rainforest’ We really enjoyed designing and then model making our own rainforests- we even included each different layer!
Take a look at our models!
Y3 enjoyed a trek through the rainforest virtually with Oliver using VR headsets! WE could not believe how realistic it was and what we actually came across! We found many animal species, plants and trees. We then moved onto looking at the effects of deforestation on rainforests around the globe – it was amazing!
