Japan Day images slide show

Foden and Sharpes shine

Laura Foden and Aaron Sharpes produced the best drafts for the introduction and methods after last Friday's deadline. All work handed in has been roughly marked and is now ready for you all to collect and head off for a summer of data presentation and analysis.

Enjoy the holidays but try and do an hour a day, you really will bew amazed at what you can achieve if you have the right approach to work.

What a day!

Japan Day activites on Friday the 13th July went down well with Year 9s.

Tom Pennell even begged for green tea at the end of the day. One word Tom - Tesco!

Massive thanks to all the staff involved in preparing the hall, working with the children on the day, and coping with my high stress levels. think it all went ok.

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Year 10 Coursework - Introduction transect

Year 10s will all need to put at least one transect into their intros - I have given you all a copy of the base map for the West Street location (B) - inner city area. It is entirely up to each of you if you decide to do more of these for the other locations. You certainly will get more marks if they are done well, perhaps with the zones from burgess/hoyt coloured in.

You could do a transect like this too!

Make sure you annotate (label) every picture and diagram properly. The coursework section of this blog will help - there is a link to another blog to show you how to do this properly.

Tribe!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/

BBC Two on demand on NTL are showing all Tribe episodes from the fantastic series about adventurer Bruce Parry living with the world's remotest tribes. Watch it if you can for real life geography in action.

Year 7 Volcano model making

Homework - to be handed in first lesson in September.

To build a model of a famous volcano using paper mache or other materials like plaster of Paris.

My Year 7 groups have already found a suitable picture of a famous volcano - a number of students have chosen Etna, St Helens and Fuji, which is great.

I would like to see the volcanoes in September, painted and small enough to bring into school. If you can't bring it into school then a digital picture of your model would be good.

Get modelling!

China's one child policy

As part of Year 9's work on the topic 'comparing countries', we were discussing China's one child policy to control the population growth. Some interesting views on this subject, especially from 9-6 today. Give me your thoughts on this matter folks!

Should China be forcing parents to control births in the busy urban/city areas?

What would you think if Gordon Brown decided to introduce a similar policy?

Simply add a comment to this diary entry to express your views.