This week the children focused on different human and physical features around the UK, drawing on previous learning and knowledge about our school and our local area of Hackenthorpe, to help them explain what both terms mean.
They enjoyed looking at pictures of different features including rivers, mountains, beaches, statues and bridges to draw upon for examples and there was a big discussion about Stonehenge, which some children thought, initially, was a physical feature, because it is made up of different sized rocks. Other children argued that it was a human feature because the rocks had been placed, by humans, in to a special formation.
In groups the children then sorted through pictures depicting features from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales in turn.
There was lots of wonderful topic-related vocabulary and - even more impressively - there was lots of enthusiastic discussion, explanation and reasoning.
Well done Year 1!
