East Manchester Field Trip – Friday 24th June Mr R. Wadsworth, a graduate of Geography, who accompanied the trip recalls the fieldtrip. Last Friday the Year 9 Geographers embarked on a journey to explore the sunny city of Manchester. Using what they have learned throughout the year they aimed to contextualise the processes and examples […]
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The Year 7 Geographers made use of the excellent weather today (9/5/16) to collect weather data around school. They measured wind speed, wind direction, temperature and aspect.The work forms part of their Key Assessment, to answer the hypothesis ” Where is the best site to locate a micro-generation scheme in the school grounds”. 712 went
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The year 7s have been learning about Unfair and Fairtrade in their Geography lessons. This unit of work was planned to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight, where students were encouraged to purchase Fairtrade products and learn about development. Students had to research, plan, design and present a Fairtrade snack. The competition is organised by Traidcraft. The
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56 Year 11 Geography students visited the Land of Fire and Ice from 11th – 15th February 2016 to expand their knowledge and understanding of topics covered in class. Stephen Oldfield reviews the fieldtrip. Day 1 – Thursday 11th February 2016 After a pleasant flight with Icelandair from Manchester to Reykjavik, the breath-taking four days
Courtney Hitchen writes about the recent Geography fieldtrip: Day 1 (14/10/15) – On Wednesday, 24 Geographers set off from school in the two school minibuses to North Wales. We were to complete the fieldwork section of the AS Geography course, accounting for 30% of our marks. During the first day we collected primary data on
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Declan Finegan & Liam Heap write about their Geography fieldtrip today: On Friday 9th October on this glorious day, as the clouds rolled over the deep valley, Year 8 Band 2 were dropped off and proceeded to walk on the closed Mam Tor road, due to the landslide. Having set the scene for the day, we
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The Year 10 Geographers, as well as 2 German Exchange students, travelled to Blackpool today (15.9.15) to apply the Butler Model learnt in class, to an actual seaside resort. After being dropped off at the South Shore, all students walked along the Promenade noting down notable physical and human attractions along the way. Each student worked
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Matthew Raines writes about the recent Year 10 Geography fieldtrip to Swanage. So I’m back from Swanage and let me just tell you, I had a really good time, which exceeded my expectations so much! I loved nearly every second, and I know that sounds so cliche, but it’s true. Day 1 – Monday 6th
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Day 3 – 8/7/15 Not as good weather today but still good for fieldwork – sunny intervals and cloudy. The two coaches swapped over routines today, Mr Douglas and Mr Smith’s groups completing their controlled assessment in the Lulworth Cove area and Mr Hardman’s group walking back to the centre from Shell Bay, completing the
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Day 2 7/7/15 After an early rise, we left the Allnatt Centre just after 9am. Mr Douglas’s and Mr Smith’s group had a short coach journey where they were dropped off at Shell Bay for the walk back to the centre. Initially the weather was not too great – but the cloud soon burnt away to leave
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