Gaskell Explorers

To give children a firm foundation in the knowledge of their local community, the country they live in and the world beyond.

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Welcome to the official Twitter page for Geography at Gaskell Primary School!

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Year 2 - Locating countries and capital cities in Africa

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Wetherlam group had a great day using the low ropes and orienteering inside and also outside!

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We have had lots of fun playing in the snow today. We went sledging and had lots of snowball fights!

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Climbing wall @ExploreGaskell #waterpark

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Year 2 and Year 3 have been to watch Aladdin at the Victoria Hall, Bolton. It was fantastic! @GaskellPrimary

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The children were absolutely amazing and behaved so well joining in with all the songs yesterday. Thank you @BoltonMusicCent for the brilliant treat and helping us to learn about music from around the world. @GaskellMusic @gaskellpshe @ExploreGaskell @GaskellPrimary

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How imaginative are our nursery children pretending to be at a camp fire toasting marshmallows! @ExploreGaskell @GaskellPrimary @GaskellWrites @GaskellRE

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@FrenchGaskell @ExploreGaskell 3S have been looking at Madagascar as part of our school's focus on French Around the World this afternoon. We found the country on the world map, discussing which continent it is located in, then researched interesting facts about it.

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In Geography, 3S have been recapping their previous learning from Year 1 and 2, looking at Africa, the Arctic and England. @ExploreGaskell

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Year 6 revisited their Geography knowledge and learned about volcanoes this week. @ExploreGaskell

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1M sorted the human and physical features of our home town! @ExploreGaskell

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Using atlases and google earth to identify the UK's surrounding seas. We then used our locational knowledge to describe the seas in relation to the countries in the UK @ExploreGaskell

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1B went to Wilders woods to notice the seasonal changes and identify deicdious trees. We also identified the physical and human features @ExploreGaskell @GaskellScience

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Class 1M trip to Wilders wood. We looked at human and physical features for Geography topic and then went on an Autumn hunt for our Science work. @GaskellScience @ExploreGaskell

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Year 5 have been looking at the population in South America @ExploreGaskell

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Year 6 have some great examples of retrieval of key knowledge in geography @ExploreGaskell

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Nursery have been enjoying listening to different genres of music from around the world and talking about which country the music comes from and the festivals where we might hear it.
Today was Bollywood .@GaskellPrimary @GaskellHistory @GaskellPshe @ExploreGaskell

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Following maps in our outdoor area! 👣 @ExploreGaskell

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In Maths, we have been looking at positional language and mapping, where we created our own maps of school and the local area. @GaskellPrimary @GaskellMaths @ExploreGaskell

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Year 6 used atlases to explore mountain peaks across the UK 🌎🗻@ExploreGaskell