Year 5 24.1.25

Geography Trip

This week Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic Geography trip to Bough Beech Reservoir and FlowZone, run by SES Water. The damp and dreary weather did not dampen pupil’s spirits and laden down with coats, scarves, hats and wellies we arrived at the reservoir for a day packed with learning. Pupils watched how the water gets into the reservoir and the stages it goes through to get to our taps. We headed out in 2 groups to the reservoir and to see the cleaning processes first hand before heading out to the reservoir to explore the key features. They learnt about how the site was initially chosen for the reservoir and how the water from the River Eden is pumped in during the winter months. Pupils loved exploring the tunnel under the reservoir and listening for the water in the pipes! Back at the centre pupils enjoyed entered the Interactive Blue zone to find out how much water we use for daily activities like showering and flushing the toilet as well as using teamwork to connect houses to the water tower. Not as easy as it looked! Hopefully pupils now have a better understanding of how water gets to our taps and begin to make more of an effort to save water. A huge thank you to the members of staff who drove minibuses and accompanied the trip as well as to all the staff at SES Water for letting us come and visit and for looking after us so well. Katie Seecharan

English

5TM have been reading The Explorer, which is set in the Amazon rainforest. They have been personifying places and objects from the story and have used their ideas to create this wonderful poem. Alexandra Price

5TM personification poem

I am the raging river,

I beckon you, do not differ.

My waves go up and down like a radio frequency,

I am the river.

I am the raging river,

I sprint to the waterfall,

I crash down onto the rocks.

I am the river.

I am the multi-coloured piranha,

I swim faster than an Olympian.

I have razor sharp teeth and my skin shimmers in the sunlight.

I’m running in the water,

I am the petrifying piranha.

I am the rain,

I dive to the unknown,

I tiptoe down the sky,

Everyone takes cover as I fly.

I am the remarkable rain.

I am the calm rain,

I race like a runner down the sky,

I put out every raging fire in the land.

It does hurt but I evaporate back to the sky and race back down again.

I am the rain.

I am the whooshing wind,

I whistle my songs in the sky,

I dive dangerously from up in the clouds to the ground.

I am the whining wind.

I am the towering tree,

I am like a skyscraper,

I am the home of parrots,

I pour tree sap down to the dirty ground.

I am the tree.

I am the tall, towering trees,

I rustle in the whistling wind,

I feed and shelter the creatures.

I am the terrific trees.

I am a towering tree of the Amazon,

I climb towards the scorching, stormy sky,

My skin shimmers in the daylight.

I am a tree.

I am the flaming fire,

I cough up ashes,

I spread as quickly as butter on toast.

I am the ferocious fire.

I am the fierce and hungry fire,

I belch so loud that I am louder than a lion’s roar.

My flame is so big, even a lion is scared of me.

I am the fire.

I am the roaring fire,

I like to gobble up everything in my path,

I can run around the Amazon.

I am the fierce fire.

I am the battered plane,

I fall down and smash,

I dive from the sky

And crash when I die.

I am the plane.

I am the burning plane,

I used to run in the sky,

And then I died.

I am the plane.

Year 5 24.1.25

Geography Trip

English

5TM personification poem

Girls’ Sport 10.1.25

Arrange a Visit

Arrange a visit