Don't forget the Guinea worm!!

Year 8 came to the end of their development topic today with a visit by Jane Attar from ActionAid. Jane delivered two fantastic talks about development levels throughout the world, human rights and how people's rights are regulary denied in developing nations. Year 8 gained a clear insight in how ActionAid can help people to establish their human rights to help to develop their own communities.

We would now like Year 8 to come up with fundraising ideas to raise money for ActionAid in the work that they do. The ideas will be discussed in upcoming form time and hopefully Year 8 will have a project up and running before Christmas. Follow up todays talk on the ActionAid website

Year 10 - Waterfall Models

Year 10 have begun their GCSE by studying river processes and landscapes. As their studies moved along the course of a river they begun to identify specific featues that occur along the course of a river. This led us directly to the formation of waterfalls. After looking at the main processes that lead to the formation of a waterfall, they worked as a group to create four models to demonstrate this

Here are the fantastic results!

Volcano Models

As Year 13 continue to work relentlessly towards their A2 examination in January, we spent the lesson yesterday looking at plate boundaries and their associated volcanic activity.

In groups they were challenged to create models to show volcanic activity along constructive and destructive plate boundaries.

Here are the results!!

Summer of Geography!

Hello and welcome back from our summer holidays. What a summer it has been! Well not in terms of sunshine and sitting out sunbathing, but on the geography front, as ever, there have been lots of geographical events! You think that geography stops whilst you are on holiday, your wrong!

Many of you will remember the flooding in Yorkshire from before we broke up. Floods struck again in the UK in South-West England. Where towns such as Gloucester, Tewkesbury (pictured) and Upton-upon-Severn were seriously flooded. Remember that this was during the summer, not when we get our greatest amount of rainfall during the winter months.

On the 15th August a powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Peru, killing at least 337 people and injuring hundreds more. In the capital city Lima, buildings shook violently during the earthquake. Click here to read more on this story from the BBC website

Hurricane Dean signified the start of hurricane season around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Many tourists were affected as the Hurricane came ashore along the coast of Mexico. Click here to read more about Hurricane Dean and its effects.

Finally for this post. A teacher has created a fantastic webiste called Games4Geog. Here you can find many games based around your study of geography. Today I am going to place a couple of links to games based on the "Summer of Geography". Test yourself on what you know and enjoy learning about geography.

Click here for the "Summer of Geography" Quiz.

Click here for another "Summer of Geography" game.

Thought you had played your lot! Think again. Click here for another "Summer of Geography" game.

Arran Fieldtrip Day 4

Arran Day 3 (Part 3)

Arran Day 3 (Part 2)