Coombe Country Park

Year 6 had great fun visiting Coome Country Park today!

When we got there, we showed off how much we had learnt and really impressed John and Lucy, our workshop leaders!

We were then left a little disappointed as we found out we couldn’t get in the river because it had risen too much and so was too dangerous! BUT it was interesting to see how much the recent downpour of rain had changed the look of Coombe and the colour of the river! 

Despite the risen water levels, we still got to carry out our river study and of course splash in quite a few puddles along the way!

First we measured the width of the river, before trying our best to measure the depth of it and different points. We found it very difficult to keep the measuring stick still as the river was flowing so fast! The river was so deep, our measuring stick wasn’t long enough to measure it at two of our points!

Next came the task of measuring the flow of the river by dropping our very scientific equipment (wooden sticks) down one side of the bridge and recording how long they took to travel through the other side using stopwatches. Again, because of the increased flow of the river, which had picked up lots of debris (hence the murky coloured water!), this was more difficult to do and our sticks kept getting lost!

Ask us what we found out to see if we can explain what our results taught us about our study of the River Smite.

Finally, we got to go and visit the (overflowing!) pond and do some pond-dipping to see what kind of invertebrates we could find!

We had such a brilliant time in which we learnt so much in relation to both our Geography and Science units!