Geography Field Trips
This week Mrs Stockton’s Year 9 Geographers have started an ICT research project on development. Students were put into pairs and given a specific country to find out a range of statistics to measure the development and quality of life. Students worked exceptionally hard to collate and present their data. Next week we will use the information to classify each country as LEDC, NIC, Tiger Economy or MEDC.
Year 9 Geography students this week cooked their own selected Indian menus. The students are following a unit of study which investigates the modern state of India. Mrs Stockton’s 9(2) and Mr Stockton’s 9(1) groups cooked a variety of taster recipes including chicken balti, vegetable massala, chicken korma. There was certainly a far eastern aroma from the food technology rooms, and the students all enjoyed sampling the various dishes. The cooking experience certainly added an element of realism to the topic and all had a good time. Well done Year 9.
Geography Controlled Assessment ICT workshop, Year 11 pupils. There will be a workshop on Tuesday 18 October in ICT 2 at 1.00pm to provide students with any extra support they need in using ICT for presenting data. The main focus will be on accurately producing and labelling a variety of graphs. If you wish to attend please sign up with KS/GS no later than Monday morning break. Early lunch passes will be provided.
Year 9 Geography pupils have been working in the library today researching a range of factors from India’s physical landscape to culture and religion. This unit of work continues next week with Indian cooking.
On Thursday the Year 11 Geographers visited Castleton in the Peak District, for the second of two ‘controlled assessment’ visits. During the visit the students were looking for evidence of the impact tourism has upon a honey pot location. Students dodged the showers to conduct questionnaires and visit the visitor centre. The students took many photographs illustrating just why Castleton is such a popular location for tourists. In the afternoon the students visited Speedwell Cavern, one of the areas tourist attraction for an underground boat trip through the tunnels of the former lead mine. The cavern at the end of the tunnel proved a brilliant location for Katy Edwards to test the acoustics with a beautiful set of chords and notes.