Blog by Tag: Geography

Year One Geography - The Four Countries of the UK

In today’s Geography lesson we located the four countries of the UK on a map.  We also learned about their capital cities.

The children in nursery are interested in learning about animals that live in cold climates. We have looked at different animals that live in the Arctic including polar bears, snowy owls and arctic foxes. We have also been exploring what happens to ice as it melts.  

Blitzkrieg

Today, the children learnt about the different cities that were targeted during the Blitz. Did you know that Liverpool was the second most bombed city in the country? Why do you think this and what was the most bombed?

The children in nursery have been learning about our different seasons and this week they were able to explore what snow and ice feel like. The children talked about ‘wrapping up warm’ and preparing for the winter months ahead. 

For our final day we started by returning to the woods to test our orienteering skills. After that we watched how to light a fire using flint and lock. We then toasted marshmallows to enjoy some delicious smores.

We returned to the centre to create pottery owls which the children will get when…

Following our evening meal, the children headed back to the barn to take part in a bench ball tournament. It was extremely close and played in good spirit with lots of encouragement from everyone.

After that, we enjoyed a hot chocolate and biscuit. As you can see from the pictures, some of the…

Following lunch, we headed back into the woods for abseiling. The children  were incredibly brave and the instructors were ever so impressed at how well the children listened carefully to instructions.

We also completed archery in the barn. It was great to see how much the children improved…

After a delicious breakfast we split into our groups. The first activities of the day were the climbing tower, low ropes course and night lining.

The children were fantastic at climbing and it was brilliant to see their improvement in such a short amount of time.

Day 1 at CHET and it has certainly been a busy one. After arriving and enjoying our lunches, we headed into the woods to tackle the orienteering course. The children completed a range of obstacles and it was wonderful to see so many of them conquer their fear of heights by taking part on the zip…

Day 3 and the final day at CHET for Miss Gray's class. We started off walking back into the woods and doing bushcraft, which involved learning how to light a fire from flint and lock and then toasting marshmallows on a fire to make smores! 

We then headed back to the centre to complete some…

Day 2 greeted us with another crisp Autumnal morning and the sun started to shine through as we headed out after breakfast to our first activities of the day - the climbing tower and the low ropes course and night lining. The children were superstars at climbing and overcoming their fear of…

To begin our Geography topic the children walked to Tesco in groups and looked in the fruit aisle to investigate where different fruits have come from.