Today our parents joined us for the last session of History Club. We talked about the history of bridges across the River Tyne and the building of the famous Tyne Bridge. We then made our very own Tyne Bridge using junk modelling materials.
In geography, we are learning all about the seaside. Today we looked at aerial photographs, which are photographs taken from the air, and worked together to idenify human and physical features that we could find along our South Shields coastline. We did a super job and found physical features such as cliffs, bays, rock pools and sand dunes. We also found human features including the fair, the pier, a caravan park and lighthouses!
This week Y3 enjoyed a drama workshop with One Day Create all about Volcanoes and Earthquakes!
We explored the key aspects of the physical geography of volcanoes and earthquakes and examined current natural disasters and significant historical incidents though quizzes and being intrigued by the descriptions of different earthquakes and volcanoes around the world. We acted out and discussed what life would be like if natural disaster occurred in our area and expressed our ideas and feelings through voice, movement, role play and drama!
This week in History club, we talked about the River Tyne and discovered why it has been significant over time. We found out about shipbuilding on Tyneside and the Jarrow Crusade. We listened to the ‘Last Ship’ by Sting and then made our ships!
This week in Reception, we have been learning about the coronation of King Charles III. We took part in activities covering many areas of the curriculum.
In History, we learned facts about King Charles and found out what a coronation was. We watched the coronation of the King’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
In Literacy, we wrote facts about King Charles.
In Geography, we learned about the commonwealth and looked at the commonwealth countries on a map.
In Art and DT, we made decorations for our classroom and designed flags to represent all of the commonwealth countries. We even had a go at drawing King Charles!
In ICT, we used Google Earth to look at Great Britain and the commonwealth countries. We were very excited to see our school!
Today we looked at the different layers of the Earth. We model made our own Earth to show all of the layers. We first made the inner core which we now know is the hottest layer of the earth reaching over 5000 degrees C! We used play dough to then layer the outer core, mantle, and earth’s crust before adding on earth and water. 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.
Today we learnt about physical and human features of the UK. Mrs Powell showed us many different photos and we sorted them into human and physical features.
We used a physical map to find physical features of the UK such as: Lake Windermere, The River Tyne, Ben Nevis and Mount Snowdon. We then moved onto using a digital map on our iPads to locate human features around the UK.
Year 4 have just begun their new topic – All Around the World. In our first lesson, we looked at world maps and located different countries. We were able to identify places in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. We researched a chosen country to find out more about it. Next lesson we will look at lines of longitude and latitude. 
Last half term Year 2 learned all about China. We visited The Oriental Museum and took part in Chinese dragon dancing, explored Chinese artefacts, completed Tangrams and found out the symbolic meanings of some animals to find hidden messages in pictures
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We have loved learning about ‘Space’ this week. In Reception, we looked at non-fiction books and found out lots of amazing facts about Space, in particular planet Earth. We enjoyed looking at our planet on Google Earth to locate our primary school! Finally, we created our own Planet Earth using colours to represent the land and water. Look at our amazing work…
