Pumpherston used to be a mining village and is on the edge of Livingston. We found this out when we were learning about our local area. We wrote reports and organised our information using subheadings.
We looked at Google Maps to find the school, the shops, takeaways, parks and train stations, then we created our own maps. Most of the class found it quite tricky because some places didn’t show on the map, this was because our map was missing lots of information.
Now we are looking at co-ordinates and directional instructions. We learnt that a quarter turn was 90 degrees and a full turn was 360 degrees. We played the game Turtle Pond and Battleships to help us.
