This week we enjoyed looking at where we live…

This week we enjoyed looking at where we live. We painted and made models of our homes.#smithdowneyfs #smithdowngeog @SmithdownPr

We enjoyed using Google Earth ?

We enjoyed using Google Earth ? to explore the school and the local area from an aerial view #smithdowngeog

We walked around our local area today and took pictures of different

We walked around our local area today and took pictures of different, important places of interest #smithdowngeog

We worked so well with a partner In Geography

In Geography this afternoon we used an atlas to help us name the countries of the UK and the capital cities. We worked so well with a partner #smithdowngeog

We then moved onto learning about the surrounding waters of the UK

.We then moved onto learning about the surrounding waters of the UK. We completed a jigsaw of the UK and used a map to help us to label the water around us. #smithdowngeog

Today we explored our local area using Google maps

Today we explored our local area using Google maps. We used our postcode to find our own homes and spotted familiar places around school too. #smithdowngeog

Year 2 had such a good time on the tour bus looking for local landmarks

Year 2 had such a good time on the tour bus looking for local landmarks and your behaviour was exceptional too #smithdowngeog

Learning about endangered animals in geography

Learning about endangered animals in #smithdowngeog what threats each are facing and what needs to be done to help.

So informative and so incredibly well presented

How AMAZING is this piece of work informing us about the consequences of palm oil! ? So informative and so incredibly well presented. #smithdowngeog #smithdownwriters

Let’s put our mapping skills into practice ?

Year 4 had an amazing geography lesson creating their own structures of the earth’s layers, and how they link to earthquakes!?

Bulb Planting in Crown Street Park!

Year 4 had a great geography lesson moving crackers like tectonic plates!!

Geography: 6 Figure grid references today for Year 6.

After locating places using 4 digit grid references, we progressed to 6 digit references today.

2GH – ?Continents???

We have been busy learning the continents song today!

World ? Earth Day

In Reception we enjoyed reusing our milk cartons to make musical shakers using natural objects outdoors.

Designing our own maps to add OS symbols.

In Geography, we have been designing our very own islands. When completed, they will show OS symbols and we will locate places using 6 figure grid references.

Watercolour Skylines

We have started our watercolour skylines to link with our Walking Tour of Liverpool which we wrote in Geography.
not finished yet, but they’re looking good already.

Liverpool Skyline

Here is a FABULOUS finished skyline picture to accompany our Geography work on our ‘Walking Tours Around Liverpool.’ Amazing work from this young artist.

Modifying Text and Images

We created posters on Word.

We shared our favourite animals, changed the font, colour, size and style and even added images too,

Amazing work Year 2

Volcanoes!

We have created our volcanoes and painted them. They look amazing! We are going to erupt them this week and see what happens when an active volcano blows. Watch this space…

Spaghetti Bolognese time!

Our first group created their very own authentic traditional bolognese sauce! We have linked our DT unit with our Geography topic of Italy. Super behaviour and sensible cooks.

Volcanoes Eruptions!

We had an amazing afternoon erupting our volcanoes! We even had a very dangerous and violent composite volcano with thick magma which increased the pressure when erupting.

Year 3 Volcano eruptions!

5EHD Geography statistics work

This week year 5 have compared Liverpool to the city of Manaus in Brazil and plotted data and different style graphs.

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1CP had the best time at the farm on Thursday!

1MS had the best time at the farm!

Cooking time again!

We had our second group to make our traditional Italian bolognese. They had a great time preparing the ingredient and seasoning it to perfection! Thanks to our amazing head chef once again – Monica.

VOLCANIC ERUPTION!!!

I’m sure many of us thought we would never witness a volcanic eruption!!! Today we did. The children in year 3 have been learning about volcanoes. We created our own, painted these and even made them erupt! We a had so much fun doing this experiment!!!

Map Making and Directions

We made our own maps of Lila’s village and used compass point directions to direct a friend around the map.

Pic Collage – Kenyan Village

As part of our Geography topic we are comparing Kenyan villages and cities with Liverpool. We are making pic collages in computing to depict life in each area. On Thursday we made our Village posters of Maasai. Keep your eyes peeled for more next week as begin to compare and contrast in more detail,

To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

4KM had a great day at the beach looking at coastal processes and playing in the sand🏝⛱!!!

The United Kingdom

We used an atlas today to label the countries of the UK and the Capital Cities too.

Geography map skills

Today we had lots of fun locating the countries and capital cities of the UK. We then worked in teams to create our own maps labelling the surrounding waters.

Year 1 have been looking at our local area in Geography!

Year 1 have been looking at the Local Area!

Where do I live?

Today in Geography, we used Google Earth to locate our homes.

Our Homes

Today we used Google Earth to locate our homes. We used our postcode and explored our local area. We also tested our UK knowledge on our new Velcro maps!

Using a combination of skills today…

In Year 6 today, we combined our learning from Geography and English by using our computer skills to present the information we have discovered into Google Sites to create our own web pages.

Palm Oil – Positives and Negatives

We simply had to share a few more pieces of work as we think they are truly fantastic! Detailed information which is extremely well presented. Great work Year 6!

Amazing Work on Renewable Energy Sources

In Geography, we have been finding out about renewable energy sources: why they are needed alongwith the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Incredible writing from Year 6

We are simply blown away by the writing we have recently produced. Our Year 6 classes are so invested in world issues – saving habitats and animals in particular. Have a read of some of the letters we wrote to the Rwandan Government, asking them to help protect the magnificent mountain gorillas 🦍

Solar Panel Persuasive Leaflets

After learning about renewable energy sources, we have just begun to produce our own persuasive / information leaflets about solar power.

Carbon footprints 👣 today in Geography

We are finding so much to learn about during this unit in Geography. After finding out about climate change and the causes and effects, we are now making footprints explaining what can be done to reduce our carbon footprints.

Amazing homework!

Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.

NRGenius’s

Year 3 had a great workshop this afternoon on how to save energy and how to be NRGenius’s. They had to create a powerful image representing why we use fossil fuels. We learnt all about renewable energy and how these are better for our environment. We ended the session by making a pledge to try our best to save energy. 💡⚡️

International Slavery Museum trip

Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 

NRG Workshop

Today, we had a special assembly followed by a workshop on renewable energy sources. Year 6 knew lots of information about this as we have covered aspects within our Geography topic.

Save Our Oceans

After learning about how important the oceans are, we produced our own presentations to show what we know.

Geographers!

Some amazing work of Mount Etna in Year 4 today. So many facts and wonderful diagrams – well done!

Celebrating differences 🌎

For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.

1MS went for a walk around the Local Area. We spotted lots of different places!

1JR loved their walk around the Local Area! We spotted lots of different places!

Earth and space

This week in science we have been looking at night and day. We have been learning about the rotation of Earth and how this creates daylight and nighttime.

5JH Lion dance to celebrate the Lunar new year! 🐲

We had an amazing afternoon in our lion dancing workshop. Happy Lunar New Year!

Fair Trade Debate

Today we learnt about the global supply chain and the different stages our products take to get to us (the customer). We debated which part of the supply chain was the most important and how fair the pay was. Our class debate was very passionate!

Year 1 have been looking at where food is from and we looked at where different fruit came from!

Sunflowers

We were very lucky last week to have some visitors in our class talking to us about keeping our environment healthy and how to look after plants. We all planted our very own sunflower seeds to take home. 🌻

Visit from an artist

Year 3 had a great afternoon making their own recycled paper and adding their own designs to this.

2GH Martin Mere

We have had a lovely day at Martin Mere today.
we helped Ava find out which way she had to migrate, went on a treasure hunt, explored the wetlands and enjoyed the play area too!

World 🌍 Earth Day

This morning we have been learning about renewable and non-renewable energy, including the pros and cons about different types of each.
We then watched a live lesson from BBC Teach about the Water 💦 Cycle.

Earth Day: Renewable Energy Sources

We learnt about the various renewable energy sources and produced leaflets about solar panels for Earth Day.

World Earth Day 🌍

Today we learnt about renewable resources and what we’re hoping for, for the future. We made websites to promote our ideas especially since it’s our future!

Earth Day in Reception

Today we celebrated Earth Day in Reception by using sun paper to make natural pictures. We also talked about ways to save and conserve energy and used a parachute to use the power of the wind to have lots of fun outdoors.

Today Year 1 have celebrated Earth Day! We picked up litter, then using recycled materials we wrote Earth Day!

Earth Day: Carbon Emissions

As part of Earth Day, we also started finding out about the carbon emissions from countries and compared to how that stand against the populations.

Earth Day – Recycled Kites

Today we celebrated Earth Day and we made kites today from recycled materials. We loved flying them outside.

Celebrating Earth Day! We have found litter to recycle and made posters to take home.

We have been learning some map skills and took a bus ride around our local streets. We were so excited to share where we lived and the route to our School.

Geography: Landmarks leading into OS National Grid work

Our first task today was to name and locate human and physical landmarks within the United Kingdom. Following this, we used the OS National Grid to identify which maps would needed if we were traveling to visit each location.

We have been busy designing our own map to save the fine prize cow! Practicing our cutting skills and working out the route. 🐄 🐞

Chester Zoo Workshop

We had a very exciting start to our week with our first Chester Zoo Workshop on UK Wildlife. We used the iPads to find some species in our playground. The workshop got us excited for our upcoming trip to the zoo on Thursday. 🐒🐼🐯🦁🦋🐍

In Geography, we have been looking at Antartica and looked at how penguins gave adapted to living there.

Martin Mere Viking day!

We absolutely loved going to Martin Mere for our immersive Viking experience. We took part in weaving, foraging, thatching and defending the village.

Chester zoo workshop

Today we had a visit from Chester Zoo. We looked at animals and plants in our school grounds.

Chester Zoo visitor day 2

Mountain or hill?

We have been learning about the difference between mountains and hills. We went outside to draw a diagram showing what we know.

In Geography , we looked at a hot continent . We found it on google maps and then sorted some features of the continent.

Continents balloons!

We have enjoyed making our balloon globes. We know the names of the continents and oceans.

Using the atlas to locate continents

We have loved exploring the atlas to find continents and oceans.

Chester Zoo

We had a fantastic day exploring Chester Zoo. The children loved looking at the variety of animals. We saw chimpanzees getting fed, lions having a nap, penguins splashing water and even explored the bat cave. The children had smiles on their faces all day! 🦁🐒🐧🦇

Our amazing Chester Zoo trip!

We absolutely loved going to Chester Zoo to learn about the animals and the trees. All of the children behaved exceptionally and loved the trip.

In Geography , we made some leaflets about Antartica.

Liverpool: A Walking Tour

We have just started working on our Geography project, planning a route around Liverpool to take in all the famous tourist sites. We also used Google Maps to help plan our routes, directions and visualise the landmarks.

Exploring an OS Map of Snowdonia

Using an OS Map and key we explored the area around Mount Snowdon in Geography.

150 Years!

Year 5 loved their workshop for 150 years and learning about the history of our local area.

Journey around the world – Australia!

Happy Rainforest Day!

Today is ‘Rainforest Day’. We are taking part of a zoom by Chester Zoo where we can learn all about the different layers of the rainforest and how animals we have recently visited at Chester Zoo are adapted for the forest and where they would live in the rainforest. We have also learnt about how to help from England to make sure the rainforest is not further destroyed.

World Climates

We looked at why our world has different climates and we also explored digimaps to find different temperatures across earth.

Forest School

We have had a lovely time in Forest School club with some of our Reception children and parents and families. We have used natural materials to make journey sticks, played listening games and created dens. Tomorrow-Thursday 26th June is our last session where we will be having a campfire. All welcome and hope to see lots of you tomorrow from 3.30-4pm. Many thanks.

Pictogram fieldwork!

This morning year 3 have been working hard to collect information for our topic on statistics in maths. We looked out of the windows onto our very busy community to see how many different coloured cars we could see. We then collected the data into a tally chart to turn into pictograms.

1st lesson – Amazon Rainforest

Today we looked on digimaps for the first time to find out where the Amazon is and found out some key facts about it. We looked at population, climate, biomes and much more. Amazing work year 5.

Biomes

In groups we created different biomes of our worlds. We thought about, climate zones, temperatures, vegetation and animals that would live in our different biomes.

Creating our own biomes!

Biomes

Today, we learnt that biomes are places with similar climates, landscapes, animals and plants. These children created biomes representing deserts, rainforests and savannas.

Earthquakes

This young boy worked very hard in geography today. In fact, he works very hard in every lesson. What a role model!

The Layers of the Amazon Rainforest

Today, we learned about the four layers of the Amazon Rainforest: the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor. These children worked very hard and produced wonderful work. Well done!

Year 4KM Beach Trip

Year 4KM had a gorgeous day at the beach exploring. We carried out some fieldwork while using four-figure grid references.

Our last English lesson of Y5

A wonderful last lesson writing up our non-chronological reports on the Amazon.

Thurstaston Beach

We had a fabulous day at the beach! We loved exploring, playing, and learning together.

Art project

Year 3 had a lovely experience this morning designing cakes based on their local area. Lots of great ideas and presenting skills being used.

The UK

What a busy afternoon in Year 2. We named the UK countries, capital cities and surrounding waters!! Busy busy!

Geography: Endangered Animals

After learning about the WWF status of certain animals, whether they are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered, we chose an animal to present in poster form including the threats it is facing.

Website creators!

Today we have been looking at the different states in the USA and have created a website for different states. we’ve looked at physical features, human features, capital cities, climate and population. 

Incredible work!

WOW! Just look at these posters informing the reader about the Giant Panda !

Local landmark or not?

This afternoon in Geography we looked at lots of different landmarks. We decided if we had ever visited any of them before, decided which were in Liverpool and found their location on a map. We can’t wait to see them on the tour bus.

We loved the open top bus!

We loved the open top bus tour of Liverpool today as part of our Geography topic. We recognised lots of local landmarks and loved listening to our amazing tour guide too.

Digimaps

Today we had a look at our local park on digimaps to find its features. We then planned out a walk that we’re going to complete.

Field work at Sefton Park

Yesterday morning, we went for a story, map activity and craft activity at the Palm house. In the afternoon, we followed our map and and completed some fieldwork around Sefton Park. We spotted many human and physical features of the park and added how we felt in each place on our map.

Messy Maps!

We made our own messy maps of our tour bus route. We even made our own key to help you to read our maps. Two little superstars went off and made their own maps too.

Human or Physical

We identified human and physical features in Geography today

Ways to reduce your carbon footprint…

We have been finding out about ways in which everyone can reduce their carbon footprint by sometimes, small simple actions which can help our planet.

Why are the oceans so important?

What a lovely piece of work explaining why the oceans are vital to life.

Seasonal Changes

We were excited to find ice outdoors this morning!

Comparing the climate between the UK and Rome

Comparing physical geography between Liverpool and Rome

Welly Walk

Y1 PK went on a Welly Walk to Crown Street Park. We followed directions – North, South, East, West and spotted what we could see. We also looked for signs of Autumn and that Autumn is changing into Winter.