Newsham Primary Northumberland Project Over the next two weeks, we would like you to complete a project based on the stunning county of Northumberland. We are so lucky to live in such a beautiful area of the country with spectacular countryside, exquisite coastlines and striking landmarks. On the next few pages you will find examples of activities linked to the different areas of the curriculum. Try to select at least one activity from each area but you are welcome to complete as many as you please. Feel free to create your own ideas too and remember to upload photos to your year group email for Newsham Staff to see. We can’t wait to see what you produce! Have fun! Physical & Human Features Map Skills Choose one of your favourite Choose your favourite place in areas of the Northumberland Northumberland. Create a map of coast. Find a quiet spot and the area. Include roads, buildings, take time to list all of the woodland, water etc. Give your map features you can see e.g. rocks, a title and make a key to accompany lighthouse, sea, beach huts. your symbols. Discover which way is When you have listed them all, North and add compass points. sort them into physical features Northumberland Fact File (created by nature) and human Create a fact file all about features (created by humans). Geography Northumberland. Research the key Discuss with an adult what kind Exploring the Northumberland Coast facts you need e.g. Location- of features there are most of. Country, (which part), continent, Contrasting Locality Discuss whether you think the climate, population, landmarks, Compare Northumberland to a similar sized human features are a positive bordering counties, seas, rivers, lakes. location with a coastline in a non-European or a negative addition to the You could add fun facts too! country. What are the geographical similarities and landscape and say why. differences? Compare human and physical features, location, climate, population, landmarks, animals and tourism. Who was Grace Darling Take a trip to Grace’s Birth Place Explore the life of Grace Darling. Have a family day out to Bamburgh, the place Research questions such as: where Grace Darling was born. Boat trips to Where did she live ?Who were her Longstone Island may not be running but on a family? What was life like growing up on a clear day you can see the island and lighthouse Northumberland island? What was her from land. If open, have a look around the role in the day to day running of the Grace Darling museum or look at the Grace lighthouse? What did Grace Darling do Darling souvenirs in the shop windows. that made her famous? What happened to Grace after she became a hero? Comparing Then and Now History Compare life at the time of Some useful websites: Study a figure of historical significance. Grace Darling to present day. BBC Bitesize Think about the way in which https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips- lighthouses worked and were video/true-stories-grace-darling/z4y7pg8 looked after. Does a family BBC Teach still live on Longstone Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCL to look after the lighthouse? 1x7wHQLY Why? If there was a terrible RNLI Shore Thing storm today, what would http://www.calstock.cornwall.sch.uk/_do happen that was different to cuments/%5B193157%5Dgrace-darling- when Grace was alive? What pack-topic-pack.pdf Grace Darling would a rescue mission look like today? History of Castles Castle Defences Make a time line of castles, from the early Study the different defensive features of a motte and bailey castles right through to castle. What were they called and what was modern day castles. Look carefully at the their purpose? You could include: drawer bridge, changes that took place over time. moat, arrow slits, battlements, curtain wall, keep, murder holes, barbican, portcullis and ramparts. You could draw a labelled diagram, write about them or make a model. History Study of a local castle. Study a Local Castle Choose one of Northumberland’s magnificent castles to find out about in more detail. Think about when it was Castle Life built, the family that lived/lives there, if Who lived and worked in a castle and what it was involved in any battles and if so were their roles? Research people like the lord who won. What does the castle look and lady, jester, knights, cooks, guards/soldiers like today? You might like to choose and even the minstrel. You could draw each one one of our school team castles; and write words to describe their role or Alnwick, Warkworth or Bamburgh. choose one to describe in more detail. Try acting out their different roles within the castle. Rock Pool Hunt Representing Information Choose your favourite rock pooling Use the pictures and the checklist of rock pool area and go on a rock pool hunt. Make animals you found and create a bar graph or a checklist of all the creatures you pictogram to show how many of each animal might expect to find and tick them off you found. Use the information to answer the as you find them. following questions. Take pictures of the animals you find in What animals did you find the most of? What the rock pools. animal did you find the least of? Science Rock pool habitats. Animal Characteristics Choose your favourite rock pool animal and draw a picture of it. Write whether the animal is a Categorising Animals reptile, mammal, fish, amphibian or bird. Whether Use the photos of the animals you found in the it is warm or cold blooded. Does it lay eggs or give rock pools, or pictures you have drawn of the birth to live young? Is it covered in fur, scales, animals to categorise them into groups. How scutes or feathers? Is it a carnivore, herbivore or many ways can you group them? Some ideas omnivore? What does it eat? might be: legs/no legs, swim/crawl, live in water/can live out of water. Beach Art Beach Drawing Use the natural materials found on Use a stick to draw in the sand. the beach or along the coast to You could draw yourself, your create your own beach art. You family, your favourite animal or could leave your art on the beach your favourite place in to naturally wash away or make it Northumberland. Add as much more permanent. detail as you can before the tide comes in. Art Create a piece of artwork that represents Northumberland. Beach Scene Make your own mouldable moon sand. Use it to create a beach scene. Add shells, seaweed etc. for extra detail. You could even create a mini sand castle! Landscape Sketching Sketch or paint one of the beautiful Northumberland landscapes. The beach at sunrise, Bamburgh Castle or one of your favourite places! Stone Towers Sandcastle Building Make a stone tower along the Build your own sandcastle. Northumberland coast. How detailed can you make it? Carefully select flat stones of Can you add turrets, a moat, different sizes and stack them and a drawbridge? Add in order of size. decorations using what you find on the beach. Moving Castle Picture Design and create a moving castle picture. Include a part that turns, a part Design & Technology that slides and a part that moves on a Design, build, sculpt, cut, join, sew or Make a model lever. bake to create a Northumberland Make your own lighthouse or castle model. You could use clay, themed piece of DT. junk modelling, Lego or you could even bake! Poetry Write a Leaflet Write a poem about Write a leaflet to give information Northumberland. It could be about about all of the amazing things you the whole county or a particular can do in Northumberland. Include favourite place. Your poem could be activities along the coast and a shape poem, an acrostic or a further inland. Make rhyming poem. Northumberland sound as wonderful to others as it is to us! English Read and write about all things Northumberland. Write a Diary Entry Poster Immerse yourself into the role of Design a poster to advertise a visit Grace Darling. Pretend you are to Northumberland. Include Grace on the evening of the storm. pictures of different locations and Describe what it was like rowing landmarks and add captions to out into the treacherous sea to encourage people to visit. rescue the crew and passengers of the SS Forfarshire. Count the landmarks Beach Calculations Take a drive or walk along the Use shells, stones and other objects you might find on a coast. Create a tally chart to show beach to create your own addition and subtraction how many coastal features you can calculations e.g. 7 shells + 4 shells = 11 shells. see. You might want to count You could even try making equal groups of 2, 5 and 10 lighthouses, wind turbines, castles, and count how many altogether. piers, boats, beaches. Try using the data you have collected to create a pictogram or bar chart. Which is the most/least common feature? Maths + = Use your mathematical thinking to create some of the following. Beach Comb Measuring Visit the beach and collect lots of interesting and different objects. Can you put them in order from the shortest to the longest. Describe your findings to a grown up e.g. the shell is shorter than the seaweed. The stick is equal in length to the feather. Northumberland Song or Rap Listen and Appraise Think about all of the fantastic Watch the video of Kathryn Tickell playing some traditional Northumbrian music.