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Year 3 walked up to Gateway 14 to look at how Stowmarket is changing. They drew sketch maps of what they saw.

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Wow! Look at the amazing unit of work Year 1 have carried out this half term.

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Is Combs Wood the same as the Amazon Rainforest?

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Is Combs Wood the same as the Amazon Rainforest?

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Year 4 have been busy designing and creating their own settlements as a conclusion to their settlements unit of work!

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Year 1 walked through Combs Wood to compare it to the Amazon rainforest. They thought about what they had learnt about the rainforest and compared it to Combs Wood.

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Comparing Combs Wood to the Amazon Rainforest

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Comparing Combs Wood to the Amazon Rainforest

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Year 1 practised the skill of sketch mapping in Combs Wood. They compared the wood to the Amazon Rainforest.

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Year 5 went to Pikes Meadow to survey the litter there. They concluded that it was actually quite clean and that local initiatives to keep it tidy were working.

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Year 4 went on a walk around the local area and surveyed the amount and types of litter they saw.

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Year 4 worked hard on their Get Loud on Litter poster competition entries. 

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Year 6 listened to a talk with Nick from Public Realm. He explained what their job role was within the council and discussed littering and what positive steps can be made to reduce it.

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Year 2 worked hard to survey the carpark and playground at the front of the school. They hunted for litter and alerted an adult who collected it up for them.

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Year 4 carried out a recycling workshop today and learnt about what materials can be recycled and how best to do that. They also learnt that although recycling is a good start we need to try to use less materials to produce less waste!

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Year 6 worked hard on their litter posters to spread the word about recycling. 

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Year 1 carried out a litter survey on our school playground and field. Once they had found the litter they were keen to show the teachers where it was so it could be collected.

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EYFS went on a litter hunt around the Willow Bank. The children noticed that litter was blowing in from outside of the school grounds. They will be using litter pickers to tidy their area.

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Nick from Public Realm came to visit Year 1 as part of Earth Day. The children learnt about littering and how they can help reduce the litter they produce.

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Year 2 listened to stories and learnt all about plastic pollution. They then used their knowledge of recycling to create posters for our school competition!

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Year 3 enjoyed the lovely weather and took part in their recycling presentation outside. They sorted rubbish and talked about how we can produce less waste.

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After learning about plastic pollution and recycling, Year 5 worked hard to create recycling posters to enter into our Get Loud on Litter poster competition.

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Year 3 carried out a litter survey around the outside of our school grounds to see if we have a littering problem and to see the types of litter being dropped. We added these results to a whole school collection of our local area findings.

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Year 2 enjoyed a talk about litter by Nick from Public Realm. They learnt about the main causes of litter and what we can do about it!

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Year 1 enjoyed listening to Sam talk all about how we can recycle more to reduce rubbish sent to land fill. The children sorted different pieces of rubbish using litter pickers.

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The children used mini litter pickers to decide what needed to be put in the rubbish bin and what could be recycled.

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Today EYFS listened to a presentation by Sam from the  council's Waste Team. They used litter pickers to sort the items to be recycled.

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Year 4 have been learning about The Alps. They concluded their learning by writing a travel brochure all about The Alps. Travel Stop in Claydon have used these to help advertise travelling to this area. Look at their shop window! Amazing!

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We surveyed the local area looking for physical and human features.

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Year 1 followed our planned route to walk around the local area. We surveyed the area for human and physical features.

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After plotting our routes on an aerial photo, as a class, we used Digimap to plan our final route together, ready for our walk.

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In Year 1 we planned a route for our local area walk on an aerial map. We made sure we used paths and roads and tried to find different locations on the way.

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Year 4 walked into Stowmarket Town to survey the local amenities. A task asked of them by the Mayor!

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Year 6 gathered samples of the river water to test how pure it was.

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They decided it wasn't safe to drink!

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Year 5 carried out field sketches of a chosen area in Felixstowe, developing their skills of observation.

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Year 5 completed a beach quality and sea defence survey for 3 locations in Felixstowe to help them select the best site for a new beach hut.

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Year 5 were set the challenge to find the best location for a new beach hut in Felixstowe. They surveyed the coastline.

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The children sketched the geographical features of the river and went on a walk to survey the area and see how clean it was so they could tell the mayor. 

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Year 6 found out that the Pickerel Project had already been really successful and the river was a really clean area! Fantastic!!

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Year 6 went to visit the River Gipping. They sampled and surveyed the river looking at the features such as depth, width and the purity of the water.

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Year 3 walked to Gateway 14 and surveyed the area. The children then concluded what they had seen and made predictions about it's long term impact.

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Year 3 walked to Gateway 14. The created sketch maps of the new area and considered the impact this change would have on the community. 

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Following a local area survey, Year 2 used Digimap to show what changes could be made to the local area to make it safer for pedestrians.

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Year 2 went on a local walk around Combs Ford to survey the area to see if there was more that could be done for the safety of pedestrians.

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Year 1 walked to Combs Wood. We made a large sketch map of an area in the woods and the children used a simple key to draw their own sketch map.

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Year 1 went to Combs Wood and looked at an area in the woods. The children drew sketch maps of the area so we could compare it to the Amazon Rainforest.

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Today the children in EYFS looked at a map of the school grounds. They then decided where it would be best to find some bugs and went outside to explore!

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Year 5 were set the challenge to research biomes at home over half term! look at some of their great work!

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In EYFS the children have been learning about the weather in winter. The children went on a winter walk around the school grounds and found an exciting new book

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The children used the idea of penguins from their book to travel south and explore the South Pole to find out what it is like there.

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The children have been reading the story Lost and Found. They have looked at the South Pole on maps and discovered that penguins live there!

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In EYFS the children used maps to search the woods to look for a surprise! Guess what they found... a party!

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The children had to look and think carefully about what they could see on the Suffolk images. They wrote notes about the human geography of Suffolk.

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In Year 6 the children looked at various images of Suffolk and wrote notes about the human geography within the county.

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Year 5 enjoyed walking around Stowmarket to gain further ideas about what Suffolk is like. They saw a range of ways that land has been used. 

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The children built jigsaw maps of East Anglia and used this to help them learn and compare the area to a region of the Alps.

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Year 5 went on a land use walk around Stowmarket and compared what they saw to OS maps of the same area.

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As part of their European unit, Year 4 researched a region in the Alps and then created a topography landscape to show the physical and human geography.

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In Year 1 the children learnt about the different features of the 4 countries of the UK. They then had a go at building the landscape of one of the countries for others to guess which country they were trying to build. Can you guess which country this was? A clue... Do you see the mountains and the lochs?

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The children used a world map to plot the journey they thought the Snail and The Whale took, using directional language.

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Year 1 used the book 'The Snail & The Whale' to find physical and human features of the places they visited.

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Could you have solved this tricky UK map puzzle?

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Great job Year 3!

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All the children access Digimap for Schools in geography lessons. The children love to use it!

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WOW

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KS2 children deciding which model matched their topographical maps.

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Here are some KS2 children using 3D models to help them understand topographical maps.

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Year 3 children trying to use the knowledge to build a jigsaw of the United Kingdom!

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Year 2 making messy maps of Kangaroo Island

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Year 2 making messy maps of kangaroo island

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Year 2 making messy maps of Kangaroo Island! Following this activity the children created their own hand drawn maps with a key.