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7 November 2025

Visit from South Staffs water


 

South Staffs water have been to visit Oak class to talk to us about where our water comes from and how we can stop wasting water.

We created our own model of a river basin and discussed how important our rivers are.

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29 September 2025

European languages day.


 

We have had fun on European languages day: taking part in quizzes to try and guess what languages we could hear. Creating posters about how learning a language can help our hearts and minds and learning the names of some new languages across the world.

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18 September 2025

Mapping Magic in Maple Class!

This week in Geography, Maple Class explored aerial views and learned how to look at places from above — just like a bird or a drone!

EYFS: Messy Map Makers

Reception children used real classroom objects to build "messy maps", thinking carefully about where things should go. They worked…

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18 June 2025

Exploring Our Wonderful World!

Our class has been busy becoming globe-trotting geographers this week as we explored continents, climates, and the poles!

We began our journey by using atlases and a globe to locate the seven continents. The children loved spotting familiar countries and faraway places. To help us remember the…

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20 March 2025

Navigating Nairobi: Human vs Physical Features!

This week, in Geography, Class One took a trip (in our imaginations) to Nairobi, Kenya. We explored the difference between physical features - natural landforms like rivers and hills - and human features, which are man-made like roads and buildings.

working in small groups, the children…

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12 November 2024

Exploring features around our school

Class One have enjoyed exploring the outdoors in our latest geography lesson to identify features in our school grounds. We started the lesson indoors by discussing familiar features in the classroom. The children pointed out everything from tables and the teacher’s desk to doors, windows, and our…

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5 November 2024

Exploring the UK with an Atlas

Today in our KS1 geography lesson, we went on an exciting journey across the United Kingdom - without leaving our classroom! Using atlases, our young geographers set out to discover more about the four countries that make up the UK: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

The children…

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