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Final Thoughts
Mount Pleasant: We enjoyed looking
at what another area of the country looked like. As part of
the Geography unit in year 2, 'Where in the world is Barnaby
Bear?,' we have studied maps and it was interesting to link
actual pictures to where it was on the map! We were excited
to see if the other school had e-mailed us that day and we
were very keen to share the work we had done about our area.
The children learned a lot more about their local heritage
and were proud to share it with the children in Yate, South
Gloucs.
Cranleigh Court: We are a Year
Two class in Yate and have been working with another Year
Two class at Mount Pleasant Primary School in Dudley. We have
enjoyed working with another class in a different part of
the country, it has been very exciting sending and receiving
our work.
We decided to draw pictures using pastels of our local area and to use the computer to write about these places.
Lots of us were very keen to write about the skate-park and the athletics ground.
We used lots of ICT as part of this project: digital cameras to take the photos; a scanner to scan our pastel pictures;
word-processing packages to write and edit our work and email to send our work to Mount Pleasant.
We have learned many things about the area Mount Pleasant is in.
It is called the Black Country because the smoke that used to be produced by the coalmining and chainmaking industry.
Canal boats were used to transport the coal, which were pulled along by huge horses!
There are still coalmines today where today you can go in to watch concerts!
We would like to visit Dudley one day!
Teachers: We have enjoyed our
time linking with another school and found it linked very
nicely with our Geography unit.
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