Geography
Year 6
Year 6 enjoyed learning about the Mayans and used their location knowledge to label countries and capital cities in the Maya area.
Year 5
Year 5 studied the country Egypt and demonstrated their human and physical knowledge by drawing landmarks on a map. They also explored the question ‘Why was the Nile so important to Ancient Egyptians?’ and found out a range of interesting facts. Next, they compared maps from 1900’s to the current day. They were also challenged to use their location and place knowledge to identify where the UK is in relation to North and South America on a map.
Year 4
Year 4 used their place knowledge to create an interesting fact file about Italy encouraging tourists to visit the country. Next they developed their location knowledge and labelled European counties. They have also used their mapping skills to label the location of the bombardments in Hartlepool.
Year 3
Year 3 enjoyed learning about maps and used them to develop their location knowledge of different counties in England. Next, they learnt about the features of maps, including symbols and grid references. They also explored an atlas which was used to help them compare features of two different countries, Spain and America. Alongside this, they have demonstrated fantastic understanding about the human and physical features in their local environment.
Year 2
Year 2 created an interesting fact file about India. They located India on a map and compared the differences in temperatures to the UK. Next they used their location knowledge to label the seven continents and the five oceans of the world.
Year 1
Year 1 enjoyed a walk around the local area, developing their location and place knowledge. They found many different human features and marked them on their sheet. They have also learnt about the countries in the United Kingdom and made a comparison to a different county, Kenya.
EYFS
Reception enjoyed their topic of 'Explorers'. They loved exploring the jungle and pretending to be pirates in the sea, as well as being astronauts in space.
Nursery enjoyed their walk around the outside of school and explored what they could see. Once back at Nursery, they worked together to draw a map of their walk containing what they had seen.
To support our national team, England, we have been following the action from the European Football Championships 2021. In school, we held a draw and each class has been allocated a team to follow alongside supporting England. We have all enjoyed following the action and have created a colossal display in the dining hall to keep track of all the key statistics from the tournament. It has been so much fun learning all about our different countries. Take a look at the fascinating facts we have learnt about all these amazing places in Europe.
Our Year 6s have formed some excellent comparisons between Denmark and England in their informative posters!
In our other Y6 class, they synthesised information from Gareth Southgate's address to the nation and formed their own conclusions about how it relates to us as part of the Kingsley team. The learnt about the FA Pride Values and created their own set of Kingsley values. This class researched Portugal and enjoyed making comparisons between both countries. Check out their incredible leaflets and posters to find out more!
Year 5 have enjoyed comparing Russia and Wales to England in their research projects and have produced some beautiful artwork of the flags and famous landmarks - excellent work Y5!
Mr Fear challenged his pupils to try to learn some Welsh. He didn't tell them it happened to be the longest word in their language! Check out this attempt from one challenger who showed a great growth mindset and tried his best.
Year 4 have enjoyed playing games to put their location and place knowledge to the test. They have followed Spain in the European competition and have formed some excellent comparisons between Spain and England.
Year 3 have enjoyed creating fact files all about Netherlands. Check out some examples from Jeyadhanu, Amelia, Hirusha and Bethany.
Year 2 have researched Sweden and France and have compared these countries to England.
Take a look at what Connie and Logan wanted to share!
Year 2 challenged themselves to be map detectives and locate lots of European countries and their capital cities. We also compared some of the landmarks in the UK to other famous landmarks around the continent of Europe.
Year one have been eagerly following Poland and Hungary in the Euros and have produced some lovely comparisons between the countries. Take a look at what they found out!
Y1 asked to find out more about the symbol of the Polish flag and this is what they found out.
They wanted to share some more of their comparisons between Flaga Polska and St. George's Cross.
St. George's Cross
In Reception, they drew Germany and have challenged themselves to learn some of their language. What an amazing performance in German Reception - wow!
Our other Reception class drew Scotland and have had some fun joining in singing Scottish songs.
Our KS2 base have enjoyed following the action of Italy and have completed lots of interesting activities. They have sampled the cultural delights Italy has to offer and even designed and created their pizzas! They have enjoyed learning some Italian phrases and have compered some famous landmarks in Rome to that found in London. Ruby loved creating her Venetian mask and attended a ball in the classroom.
In Year 2, as part of our ‘Land Ahoy!’ topic, we have been finding out more about the discoveries of Captain James Cook. On his first voyage, we learnt that he visited Australia and found some curious, new animals along the way. We researched different human and physical features of Australia, finding out about lots of different landmarks and compared them to our landmarks here in Hartlepool. Take a look at the amazing aboriginal artwork that Y2 have created. Can you spot the interesting duck-billed platypus and kangaroo?
In Year 2, linked to our local history week topic studying the Trincomalee, we plotted the voyages of the famous ship on a map. We learnt some fun songs to remember the 7 continents and 5 oceans too. Check out some of our map skills below that we either completed in school or at home.
Do you know the 7 continents in order of size?
Reception have been learning about 'The Jungle'. We used the Globe to locate England and Madagascar. The children could explain that we live in a town called Hartlepool which is in a country called England. We talked about ways we could travel to Madagascar and then made vehicles using construction.
"You could go in an aeroplane because they can fly over the oceans."- Finn
"It's too far away to walk or go on a bike or a scooter or a Segway."- Toby
Year 3 worked as a team to make group volcanoes.
They picked the best parts from each other's designs and put them together to make a group sculpture.
They all worked well together and solved problems as a team.
Look at these amazing finished volcanoes
In Reception, the children have been looking at maps to see where Madagascar is. We decided we could not walk there so the children have made some vehicles to travel there.
Yellow group made an aeroplane, Green group made a boat and Red group made a helicopter.
We have been learning about Volcanoes in year 3 this term!
Did you know?
'Eruptions are caused by pressure under ground'
Albie
' Magma is melted rocks'
William
'Pompeii was destroyed by a volcanic eruption on the 24th August 79AD' Evie
Nursery went on a trip to the Forest School and enjoyed exploring and observing the different features of their environment.
Reception completed a comparison between the Jungle and Hartlepool during their topic. They thought about different buildings, landmarks and weather.
KS1 SEND base have explored different maps this year. They looked at a map of the world and then followed their own map around the classroom.
Year 4 have been completing cross curricular Numeracy and Geography looking at weather charts. They were able to interpret the data to develop their location knowledge.
Year 5 completed a case study about the Haiti earthquake looking at the location, causes, effects, management and statistics. Here are some examples of their work.
