Category : Geography

As part of our geography this term, Year 3 have been using an amazing online resource called digimaps. We have been able to look at different maps from 1890’s, 1950’s and today. We have compared our local area and discussed the developments that have taken place.

As part of us comparing these maps we needed a way to look at all these maps in the same way. We used ordinance survey icons to help us and we quickly spotted that things like churches have always been in our local area. We also spotted that things like viewing areas are a newer addition to our area as these were not on the earlier maps.

We really enjoyed using these ordinance survey symbols to help us identify lots of different features in our local area.

In our Geography lesson this week Year 1 have been developing and applying their knowledge of Human features and Physical features. We started by exploring an ariel view map of Christopher Pickering school and discussing what human and physical features we could identify.

Once we had done this we designed our own symbols to represent each of the human features, such as the MUGA, carpark and play area, and also the physical features such as the trees, and school field.

The children then worked together using the view of our school from Google earth, to plot their symbols onto their own maps. They did a fantastic job and even added a key to show what the symbols represent!

This week in geography, Year 3 have been using atlases.

We have begun to identify countries in Europe with the use of an atlas. We could identify England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland independently. We then began to find France, Belgium and The Netherlands as these are the countries which are closest to Hull.

We can use our atlas and our knowledge of compass points to find European countries which are north, south, east or west in relation to where Hull is.

We enjoyed using the atlases and worked together to identify lots of European countries.

Today Year 1 became geographers and got out and about within the school grounds!

We started our lesson by exploring what the terms human features and physical features mean. We learnt that a human feature is anything that is made by people such as buildings, bridges and roads, and that a physical feature is something that is natural such as mountains, rivers and forests.

We then took the information we had learnt and went outside to explore our school grounds to see what human and physical features we could identify!

Tuesday 4th June 2024

To enhance our Geographical knowledge, Y5 took at coach trip to different locations along the river Hull.

Our first stop was in the city centre, at the mouth of the river, where the River Hull meets the River Humber. Here we created wonderful sketch maps to help us identify how land is used in that area and how features such as the tidal barrier are used to help prevent our low-lying city from flooding.

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Our second stop was in the village of Dunswell. We walked beside the mid-part of the river here, we were able to identify that the land use had completely changed and that is was a very rural area. Our Y5 students were able to confidently talk about the features of the river, such as the meander, after all of their great work in class.

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Claire and the Team at Ings Lane Garden Centre made us feel very welcome, we popped in there to buy ice creams and treats after our long riverside walk. We were invited to look at their fish which were mesmerising!

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Our final stop was a bit if a cheat! It was not the source of the River Hull, it was somewhere a little closer to home that mimicked the source – the very shallow stream at Brantingham. Here we were able to safely get closer to the water to measure the velocity and depth of the river at this early stage. Our year five students worked brilliantly as a team using their tools to develop their Geographical field work skills.

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At half two, we hopped back on the bus all set to go back to school in good time and the bus wouldn’t start! The lovely people at Ellie Rose sent a replacement bus so we got to have some extra fun time in the beautiful village of Brantingham whilst we waited for that to arrive. This gave us the chance to hike up Brantingham Dale again and take in the lovely sights – from up there we could see the River Humber, the woodlands and sheep grazing on the hillside with their beautiful lambs.

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Instead of car-e-oke, we had bus-e-oke on the way back with the talented boys booming out the hits! X-Factor here they come 🙂

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