Geography
We are delighted to announce that our geography curriculum was awarded the Silver Primary Geography Quality Mark. Here are some of the key comments from the assessors:
‘quality learning is supported through providing pupils with appropriate knowledge and evidence.’
‘The rational for teaching Geography is clear – taking into account the school’s local context and cohort.’
‘Effective monitoring helps to drive improvement’
‘Professional development of staff is clearly supported’
At Smithdown Primary School we believe that Geography enables children to make sense of the complex and dynamically changing world that they live in. Our aim is for children to develop a natural curiosity about their immediate surroundings and the wider world, becoming more aware of people, places and environments. Children will be confident using their taught geographical skills to collect and communicate information, including drawing and interpreting maps. They will be taught through engaging, fun Geography lessons and given the opportunity for meaningful learning opportunities and field work.
In Key Stage 1 children will develop their knowledge about the United Kingdom and their own locality. They’ll learn how to use maps, atlases and globes as well as learn simple compass directions. The children will also study seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and look at the hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the equator and the North and South Poles.
In Key Stage 2 the children will look to extend their knowledge to beyond their local area and will study Europe as well as North and South America. They will begin to look at similarities and differences of human geography such as types of settlement and land use. They will also study physical geography elements such as climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes. Children will continue to use maps, atlases and globes and will use the 8 points of the compass in their work. They will start to consider the use of four and six figure grid references and ordinance survey maps.
Progression will be assessed through evaluation of your child’s written work and consideration of their responses and contributions to discussions.
National Curriculum for Geography
Geography Chatter
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.
19Geographers!
Some amazing work of Mount Etna in Year 4 today. So many facts and wonderful diagrams – well done!
5Save Our Oceans
After learning about how important the oceans are, we produced our own presentations to show what we know.
8NRG 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.
6International 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.
29NRGenius’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. 💡⚡️
Amazing homework!
Superstar 🌟sisters! Both have done work at home based on their current topics 👏. Well done guys.
44Carbon 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.
7Solar Panel Persuasive Leaflets
After learning about renewable energy sources, we have just begun to produce our own persuasive / information leaflets about solar power.
17Incredible 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 🦍
44Amazing 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.
45Palm 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!
22Using 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.
25Our 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!
39Geography 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.
18The United Kingdom
We used an atlas today to label the countries of the UK and the Capital Cities too.
394KM had a great day at the beach looking at coastal processes and playing in the sand🏝⛱!!!
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,
91Map Making and Directions
We made our own maps of Lila’s village and used compass point directions to direct a friend around the map.
84VOLCANIC 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!!!
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.
565EHD Geography statistics work
This week year 5 have compared Liverpool to the city of Manaus in Brazil and plotted data and different style graphs.
36Volcanoes 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.
55Spaghetti 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.
53Volcanoes!
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…
50Modifying 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
117Liverpool 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.
50Watercolour 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.
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.
40World ? Earth Day
In Reception we enjoyed reusing our milk cartons to make musical shakers using natural objects outdoors.
29Geography: 6 Figure grid references today for Year 6.
After locating places using 4 digit grid references, we progressed to 6 digit references today.
37Year 4 had an amazing geography lesson creating their own structures of the earth’s layers, and how they link to earthquakes!?
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
61Learning about endangered animals in geography
Learning about endangered animals in #smithdowngeog what threats each are facing and what needs to be done to help.
42Year 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
57Today 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
57We 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
54We 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
57We 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
58We enjoyed using Google Earth ?
We enjoyed using Google Earth ? to explore the school and the local area from an aerial view #smithdowngeog
66This 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
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