Seasons and weather where we live
Geography · Key Stage 1 · The School
Four seasons
In the United Kingdom the year has four seasons. SPRING is mild and things start growing. SUMMER is warmest with the longest days. AUTUMN is cooler and leaves fall. WINTER is coldest with the shortest days. Each has its own kind of weather, though any single day can surprise you.
Recording weather
Weather can be recorded with simple symbols — sun, cloud, rain, wind, snow — one for each day on a chart. After two weeks you can count how many days were rainy. That is real data, collected by you, and it is the beginning of every weather study.
What weather changes
Weather changes what people wear, what they do outdoors, how they travel, and what farmers can plant or harvest. Heavy rain closes a park; snow closes a school; a hot summer changes what shops sell. Noticing those links is geography — the connection between the physical world and what people do.
Write down what a story says summer is: hot, sunny, dry. Now record the real weather every day for two weeks in June or July. You will very likely get rain on four or five days, at least one cold morning, and a range of maybe fifteen degrees. Compare the two lists. The season describes a PATTERN, and your fortnight is the evidence that the pattern is not a promise.