Year 2 Geography Day!

Yesterday, Year 2 spent the day learning about two locations. The first was the city of Southampton. We found out all about the city and we even conducted a traffic survey outside of school. We found that there were more vehicles during school drop off times than during the school day.

We also looked at Jinja in Uganda. We learned that it is the source of the River Nile. Jinja has many similarities to Southampton, including that they are both ports and have rivers running through them.

In the afternoon we had a very special visitor on the computer! We had a video call with a man called Baker who lives in Jinja, Uganda. He answered all of our questions and told us all about what it is like to live there.

We had a great day!

Geography- Year 1 Local Walk

In Geography we have been leaning about our local area. We have been leanring to identify features as either 'human' (man-made) or 'physical' (natural) and label accordingly. We really enjoyed going on a walk through the Lordswood area and saw lots of great features that we could later add to our maps!

Elm Class at Testwood Lakes

Year 2 went to Testwood Lakes for their trip. We focused on our map reading skills by helping Speckle the Spider find his belongings that he'd lost in the woods and around the site. We then needed to find as many of Speckle's friends as we could by sweeping the long grass and log turning in the woods. It was a very fun day, evenif it was a bit hot!

Year 2 Geography - Hot and Cold

Our Geography theme this half term is hot and cold. We have focussed on the North and South Poles and the Equator. We have looked at what the equator is and how it divides Earth into hemispheres, the differences in climate and weather at these points and we have enjoyed exploring atlases and aerial photos.

Our World Kitchen

 Y5's new Geography and DT unit is all about food from around the world. In this week's Geography lesson we researched a whole range of fruit and veg products from across the globe. We used Atlas's and thematic maps to find out how far our food has come!

Year 2 Geography

Year 2 had great fun this week learning how to use a compass. We learned the rhyme Never, Eat, Shredded, Wheat to remember the 4 points on the compass and then we drew our own on the playground with chalk. We made sure our drawn compasses pointed North by using a real compass first, once we had drawn them we gave our friends instructions to follow using the compass points.

Year 3 Local Area Study

 Armed with maps and compasses, Year 3 set off into the woods of Lordswood. We used our equipment to not only locate our route but also North, South, East and West. We also took note of the different land uses surrounding our school. Here are a few pictures:- 

Y4 River Home learning

Year 4 have been busy working away at home on their Rivers Home Learning project. We were amazed at the fantastic work they produced and had a great time sharing with Y1.

Year 3 Speeches

Y4 Build a river

As part of Rivers topic Year 4 spent yesterday afternoon constructing a river on the playground. We thought about all the different parts of the river and watched as the water made its way down the river course.

Y4 River Walk

Yesterday Y4 had a fantastic start to the day, exploring Tanner's Brook. We followed the river for a while, thinking about how different parts of the river behaved.

A busy start to the term in Year 3

Lordswood Explorers Part 1

3LM had a fabulous local walk today, despite the awful weather.😱

Our Geographers were in small groups, observing and recording man-made and natural features of our local area. We also had a particular focus on identifying things that definitely should not be there. 

The children were impeccably behaved, energetic and very enthusiastic. They were also a little damp! But this did not stop them!

They were genuinely shocked at how much litter was around, ruining the aesthetics of the local environment and causing possible danger to animals and humans alike.

We talked about how we could encourage the local community or local council to help reduce rubbish and repair overgrown areas such as Goldcrest pond to encourage wildlife. We also discussed how positive intervention could help globally by recycling the plastic and cans we saw.

At a later date, children will be producing a short persuasive and emotive speech about the litter issue (and other issues) so watch this space!

Mexico comes to Y4

Year 4 finished a fantastic week learning about Mexico with a Mexico day. We learnt about a contemporary Mexican artist Curiot, made God's eyes, cooked chilli and flat breads and of course had the chance to taste our cookery!

Oakstead goes to Marwell

Yesterday, the children of Oakstead paid a visit to Marwell Zoo to meet the different animals there and learn about their different habitats.

Cedar Class Assembly

This half term Y1 have been learning about the different continents around the world. They put on a performance for their friends and family to see all of the wonderful things they have been doing.

Year 1 Fruit Pizzas

Year 1 have been looking at fruits around the world. They have also been reading a story called 'Handa's Surprise' that talks about 7 fruits from Africa. Inspired by this the children created fruit pizzas using some of the fruit from Handa's Surprise.

Y1 Clay Huts

This half term our topic is Little Explorers. We have been looking at all of the different continents. We have been looking at Africa and comparing how we live to how some people live in Africa. We have used clay and straw to help us build some model huts.

Year 1 Local Walk

This morning Year 1 went on a local walk around Sandpiper Road. The children used a map to follow the route we were taking and help identify the names of the roads. As we were looking at the names of the roads we talked about the different birds they were named after, where the birds could be found and a fun fact about them

 

Y4 River walk

Yesterday, Year 4 got out into the local area to explore rivers. We followed the path of Tanner's brook to see how it changed on its journey.