Category: Geography

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Topic – week beginning 8th June

This week I would like you to enter a competition! If we win the competition we could win books for our school. There is £2000  worth of books to be won!

To enter the competition you need to design and write a postcard to children at a school in Saint Lucia, talking about your life in the UK and asking about the children’s lives in the Caribbean. What do you think the differences might be? What would be the best things about living in Saint Lucia? What would you like to see and do? For more inspiration, you can watch some videos from children at a Saint Lucian school.

On the back of the postcard, draw, paint or use different materials to create a picture inspired by Saint Lucia. This could focus on any element of the island – whether the landscape, the Piton Mountains, the history, the plants and animals, the people, day to day life…or even the chocolate!

Here is the post card template. You can download this from the competition website and use it or if you don’t have a printer you could draw it on a piece of paper. When you have made your postcard then take a picture and email it to me and I will print and send them. You could also print and post them to the school or drop them off at reception for me.

Click here for full competition details :https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/saint-lucia/competition#competition

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Half term project – design an island

Your half term  task is to design your own island home. You can draw a picture or make a model. You need to:

Use some natural features – Lakes, rivers, beaches, mountains, hills.
Use some manmade features – Roads, houses, shops, schools.

Now think about…

  1. Where will you live on your island?
  2. Where will you get your food from?
  3. How will you travel around the island?
  4. Who else lives on the island?
  5. Is there any wildlife on the island?
    Make sure you label your picture or model.

Here are some examples to help inspire you. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

When you have made/drawn your island then send me a picture. Don’t forget to give it a name!