Outdoor Learning

While travel has been curtailed for us all this year, we have used geography lessons and our outdoor spaces to even greater effect. Year groups continue to use Digimap to learn new GIS skills - Year 5 used it alongside their coastal processes unit and have created their own maps, labelling features and adding photographs. Year 3 used Digimap to explore the continent of Australia and had a go at measuring how big it is. It also allowed Year 4 to compare OS maps and aerial photographs of Maidenhead and Bruton and provided them with some advance knowledge of the places they would be going to visit prior to their residential trip to Mill on the Brue. The warmer weather allowed Year 4 to venture out to Braywick to investigate some pond creatures and discover nature around them.

The Year 5 and 6 trips in the Summer Term drew on their geographical studies of landscapes and Year 6 were able to make use of some of our outdoor teambuilding exercises during their residential, communicating and working together to solve puzzles and problems, all in preparation for their transition to senior school.

Back in school, the outdoor classroom has been used by all year groups and for all subjects; it has seen story time, maths investigations, RE topic representations, play performances, and much, much more! > Mrs Bambridge, Head of Geography