Year 1's Fieldwork Trip

The children in Year 1 conducted some fieldwork around their school grounds. It was important for them to explore their local area. Their task was to do some rubbings of human features (brick wall, fence, play equipment or tarmac) and rubbings of physical features (tree, leaf, rock) in their school grounds. When they were back in the classroom, they discussed which different things they could rub and compared the human and physical features on our school grounds. The children spoke about their findings.

Year 2's Fieldwork Trip

The children in Year 2 conducted some fieldwork in their local area. Their task was to follow a basic map around their town and discuss the human and physical features they found in Bedworth. As they walked around they discussed the difference between human and physical features and how we can spot these. The children then came back to the classroom to create their own simple maps of Bedworth using keys.

Year 3's Fieldwork Trip

Year 3’s enquiry question: What facilities can be found in my local area, and how do people travel to them? The children spent some time looking at Google Earth – including street view before heading out into their local community. the children noted down what they noticed in their local area. The children then came back to class and discussed different methods of presenting fieldwork data, including using different graphs. The children realised that bar charts allow us to organise information using bars of different lengths. The length of these bars represents the size of the information collected by comparing one bar to another. They then worked in small groups to put together a bar chart of their observations of things they saw in their local area.

Cut Your Carbon 2024

During the month of November, The Canons are taking part in a geography initiative called 'Cut your Carbon' created by Eco-Schools. Cut Your Carbon aims to raise awareness about carbon emissions and inspire young people to take action against climate change. Over the month of November, pupils are encouraged to complete six carbon-cutting activities at home with their friends and families such as taking a shorter shower, eating Vegetarian for a day and having 1 hour free of electrical devices.

Severn Trent at The Canons

Severn Trent came into the Canons to help KS1 learn about how to protect our environment. They spoke about the importance of keeping water clean and some helpful tips to live a more sustainable lifestyle. We spoke about what sustainability means and how they could save water at home such as shorter showers and turning the taps off when we brush our teeth. The children also learnt about the water cycle and how we get clean water.

Severn Trent then conducted some workshops with the children in KS2. They worked in the classroom to further develop their knowledge of sustainability and how to keep water clean. They learnt some great facts about cutting down on our water consumption and the benefit this has for our planet and local environment.  

Year 4 Fieldwork

The children in Year 4 have learnt all about the impact of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources so they decided to investigate the best area in Bedworth to put a wind turbine. Children took their maps around Bedworth so they know where they were going. The children headed to all saint’s church, the high street then to the miners welfare park to measure the speed of the wind using anemometers. The teacher recorded the findings for each group and an average wind score was recorded in their books. Back at school, they discussed at each of the key locations about the speed of the wind, what they have found and why the wind may be high/low depending on the surroundings. The children concluded that the best place for a wind turbine is in the welfare park.

Year 4 Brandon Marsh 

Year 4 had an exciting visit from Brandon Marsh. They worked with a wildlife specialist to plant hedges around the edge of the school. The worked in teams to prepare the land and then plant the hedges. The specialist  taught them about the different types of hedges and how we can plant specific types to benefit the wildlife in our local area. They had a great time learning about protecting our environment. 

Geography Club!

During Spring term, Year 2 and Year 3 children have had the exciting opportunity to be a part of Geography club. The club had a heavy focus on sustainability, how we can become eco-citizens and how to improve our local environment. We discussed topics such as deforestation, wildlife and plastic pollution and how we could work together to overcome this. The children had the opportunity to plants seeds and flowers for our school ground, create orange bird feeders and create a piece of artwork inspired by plastic pollution. As a result, children were given the opportunity to sign up for a Green Blue Peter badge to celebrate their hard work as sustainable global citizens.