You can travel the seas, poles and deserts and see nothing. To really understand the world, you need to get under the skin of the people and places. In other words, learn about geography. I can’t imagine a subject more relevant in schools. We’d all be lost without it.
A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the frameworks and approaches that explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time. National Curriculum for Geography, purpose of study
Raiding and Trading – Riley Class Vikings Trip
Today, we had a wonderful time at the National Maritime Museum. These are some of the artefact replicas that we investigated. What do these tell you about the Vikings? Here are some pictures of us deciding what to trade in Baghdad. Finally, we explored the big map...
Latitude, longitude and STEAM Day
by Tabgila and Liam At the end of last week, it was STEAM Day at our school. We could go to different classes to do different activities, and a lot of us enjoyed going to Mr Norman's class to watch a lamb's eye being dissected. Not everyone went because they felt a...
A Fun Week in Year 6
By Melissa and Akram Today in the whole school we did steam day. Steam day is when there are lots of activities and you can go to any one of them. There was fire, balloon rockets, experiments with skittles, oranges and many more. . It was really fun and here is a...
Trip to The Imperial War Museum!
By Fabiha and Michael James Trip! This week our class and Hadid class went on a trip to the Imperial War Museum we got there by DLR and the Tube it was a good experience. We learnt what the soldiers used and what they went through. We did a worksheet where we had to...
Continents, Oceans and more
In geography this week, year 3 have been singing to retrieve what we already know about the world's continents and oceans. We realised that our lessons in year one and two have taught us so much, and we are ready to continue building on this as the year progresses....
New Year New Learning
By Sara and Fabiha This week in geography we learnt about the 3 forces during World War 2 ( allied forces, axis forces and neutral forces) Allied forces fought alongside Great Britain where as Axis forces fought along Germany. However neutral forces stayed safe and...
Touring the Lansbury Estate
Hepworth class went on local walk around the Lansbury Estate Festival of Britain logo! "This church was here in 1951 and even now!" - Yusra On the hunt for Festival of Britain landmarks. We spotted the FoB flag on the window of the Festival Inn Sketching the Clock...
A tour of our community
Year 3 took a stroll around the local sites to walk the 1951 Festival of Britain route around our community. Setting off and returning to school The children spotted the Festival Star logo in surprising places and on key buildings as they sketched pictures and made...
Year 2 – Community – Autumn 1 Term
This term in year 2, we have been learning about the emergency services in our community and comparing them with the emergency services in the past. First, we learnt about 21st century fire fighters by reading a non-chronological report and writing our own, we then...
Year 2 – Geography Fieldwork
All across Lansbury Lawrence this half term is about community. Each year group look at a different aspect of our local community and in year 2 we are looking at the emergency services in Poplar. For our geography feildwork expedition we used a map of our local area...