Monks Risborough CE Primary School
Our Local Area
Our lead subject is Geography for Our Local Area topic this half term, where we study where our school is, where we live and what it is like there. We even learn our home address in order to be safe. We are aiming to answer the question 'How can we respect our local area?' by the end of our learning journey.
We are studying a number of books this term to help us learn more about our local area. Please enjoy these stories at home too once we have read them.
Knowledge organisers
September
What a great month September has been! The Wrens are loving their new classroom and learning all about the new rules and routines. We have been busy making Gruffalo traps after seeing him in our outdoor area on CCTV, enjoying le gouter after visitors came in and taught us on European Day of Languages and learning about animals in Science. In DT, we learned about different joins and tried to use them when we built a building out of junk modelling, practised our printing skills with paint and leaves and have been developing our skills of numbers up to 10. Can you see what the different places are that we have made on our big map in Geography?
October
It has been a fantastic month! We've learned our days of the week, demonstrated our skills in subitising and are learning about part whole models. Number bonds will be next in Maths! Our Geography learning has been so fun, we've even used rolls of wallpaper in provision to make our own aerial view maps. One of our favourite things was our walk to the postbox. We wrote our addresses and stuck on a stamp to our envelope to send a special message to our families at home. It was so much fun. Because we walked so safely, Mrs Horton said we could have a play in the park.