Year 5 took a deep dive into the Earth’s powerful geography, learning all about tectonic plates. We discovered that the Earth’s crust is made of huge, moving pieces, and their collisions create spectacular landscapes. To understand how this happens, we used a brilliant, hands-on model: layers of jumpers!

By pushing the edges of the fabric together, we watched the jumpers wrinkle and rise into fold mountains, just like the Himalayas. This memorable demonstration showed us how slow, immense forces underground shape our world. We now know that our clothes can teach us complex geological processes! It was a brilliant, practical lesson.