School News
With the end of this academic year marking 75 years of schooling on this site,
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Below is a report on Class 4's recent geography trip to Upware. They day was fine and much enjoyed by all who went.
Class 4 go to Upware to study Rivers
On Wednesday 11th February we arrived at school at normal time and travelled to Upware in either Mrs Hill's car, Mr Pumfrey's car, Mrs Noyes' car, Mrs Wade-Gledhill's car, Mrs Richard's car or Mrs Pettersson's car. I went in Mr Pumfrey's car with Natasha, Thomas and Keiren. It took about 10 minutes. We arrived at Upware around 9:30 and went straight into the building that used to be the village school. We hung our coats up and went into the little classroom. We went there because in our Geography we are learning about Rivers and The Fens rivers in particular.
In the little classroom we looked at some pictures that the lady (who was teaching us called Jane) had put it into a slide show and we had to name the parts of a river that she showed us. We had to listen for a very long time and then we separated into two groups. She told us how they drained the Fens with a clay model of it. One group had a map (as large as the table) of the Fens that they had to place some names of places and things and had to place them on the map. After that they had to mark it on their own map and if they finished that then there was about five trays of sand and we had to make a river and put all the contents of a river in it. While one group was doing that activity the other group was doing an experiment with sand. There was a little slide that had a layer of sand on and she made a line down the middle with another line leading down to it. Then we had to place a stone and a miniature house somewhere on the slide. We had to draw what it looked like then. Next she poured a little bit of water down the line and we had to draw what it looked like then and had to answer some questions about what happened. Lastly she poured a jug full of water into it and quite a few houses and stones fell into the red box at the bottom of the slide. We also had to draw and write about what happened. Then we swapped groups. The class joined together and we talked about what we had been doing that morning and at 12.00 o'clock she sent us, group by group to wash our hands and get our lunches. And we ate our lunches in the little classroom. After our lunch we went and played outside to run off some of our energy.
Once we had played outside for about 15 minutes Jane called us in and we went into the little classroom to talk about what we were doing next. She said we would have to put on our wellies and coats as we were going to walk to the River Cam. So we put our stuff on, collected a clipboard, a sheet and a pencil and met Jane outside by the car park. We followed her until we came to the banks of the River Cam. On the sheet we had to draw what we could see of the river and had to add some extra things in. She took us onto the platform and gave our group leaders each one tape measure, which measured up to 30 metres, a bag of dog biscuits, 2 red flags and a timer. The reason we used these things was because we were going to do an experiment to see how fast the river was flowing. We put the two red flags five metres apart and threw in the dog biscuits one at a time. We threw three in the side of the river and three in the middle. Then we used the timer to time how long it took the dog biscuit to travel to the other red flag. We wrote down the results on the back of our sheets. Next Jane said that we were just going to have a little walk round the village so we did. We walked to the lock and had a look at that and walked back to the Centre, got all our bags together and said thank you to Jane. Then we went back to the cars that we came in and drove back to school. We arrived at school at about 2.50, just in time to say goodbye to Mrs Pinhey at her singing lesson, as she is leaving for a little while because she is having her second baby.