Saturday 23 July 2011

GROW

Nice video to launch Oxfam's new food security campaign.



Click here to find out more and get involved.

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Summer Geography Competition

Wherever you are heading over the summer holidays, keep an eye out for all things geographical so that you can enter our lovely competition...

The competition is open to all students who will be in Year 8, 9, 10 or 11 in September, and there'll be a prize for each year group.

Your challenge is to create a collage of your geographical summer holiday. You might want to include maps, photographs, tickets, objects.... from places you visit. It doesn't matter whether you're going to Crich Tramway Museum or the Great Wall of China, and your collage can be based on a day, a week or the whole summer holiday.

Entries will be judged on creativity, imagination and geographical-ness...

Your entry needs to be handed to Miss Ellis in H7 by the end of the day on Friday 9th September, and must be clearly labelled with your full name and your [new] form.

Have fun!!

Saturday 9 July 2011

A new nation

The Guardian has its version of 'the new world map' here. It's new because it includes South Sudan - the world's newest country as of today. You can read more about South Sudan from the BBC here and on the Worldmapper blog.