Monday, 29 October 2012

Year 8s...Weather and Climate

We just began a new unit about weather and climate. I have just explained some basic information about weather and we will explain some other key aspects about it too. All the information is going to help you to understand much better what is happening now in USA. Have a look to this link and you will notice the importance of learning geography in the school to understand what is going on around us.




Monday, 22 October 2012

More than 10000 visitors!!!

Dear all,

Just a quick message to send you the biggest THANK YOU as we have reached more than 10000 visitors in the webpage in the last 10 months (an average of 1000 per month). 
If you are curious about the webpage data, these are some of the countries we have got visitors from:

España / Spain  5954
Estados Unidos / USA  530
Reino Unido / UK  492
Alemania / Germany  286
Francia / France  166
Polonia / Poland  147
Países Bajos /Netherlands  133
Rusia / Russia 130
Italia / Italy 103
India  70
Others 2000

Thursday, 18 October 2012

Year 7s...History Sources

We have been talking about the meaning of sources in a few lessons during the first term. We said that sources are the clues that tell us about the past, for example, about how people used to live, or what they did or thought. And we created three categories: documents, pictures and artefacts.

Here you have a link with information about Roman gold coins found in UK... so we must include them in one of the three categories.If you want to get house points, you must work a little bit during the weekend and for the next lesson bring me an answer where you explain in which category it must be included and write in your exercise book a brief summary of the web article.




Thursday, 11 October 2012

Year 9s... IMPORTANT UPDATE

I needed to change the revision of BOOKS and Q&A test for year 9A (just one day). No changes for year 9B. So the final edition is this one. Have a look and use it as reminder.


Q&A + BOOKS

9A 
(19/10/12)
(23/10/12)

9B
(18/10/12)
(23/10/12)


Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Year 7s...IMPORTANT UPDATE


Some changes and updates about revision of Books and Q&A test for HISTORY.
It means that Geography and History revision days will be the same week. 
An extra day for revision will be added if it is needed the following week, I have been told an excursion has been set for the week of revision and maybe it will affect 7A and 7B.

- Q&A + BOOKS (HISTORY)

7A (16/10/12) and (17/10/12)     (24/10/12 if needed)

7B  (17/10/12) and (19/10/12)    (24/10/12 if needed)

7C  (15/10/12) and (18/10/12)



- Q&A + BOOKS (GEOGRAPHY)

7A (17/10/12) and (18/10/12)

7B (15/10/12) and (18/10/12)

7C (15/10/12) and (18/10/12)

Monday, 8 October 2012

Year 8 ...Coastal Erosion

Just a couple of reminders...

- Revision of books and Q&A will be in our second lesson of this week (have a look to Year 8 tag above)

- Here you have a link about Happisburgh, the place we have been using as an example during the lessons to explain coastal erosion. 




History jokes

As we did last year with Geography... here you have some History jokes :-)








Thursday, 4 October 2012

Year 7 ... Geography MAPS!!!!

Dear Year 7s,

I hope you find Geography interesting, I know you are noticing lots of changes from primary to secondary, but the sooner you get use to the changes, the better. During this first term I am teaching you about making and mapping connections and trying to teach you how to develop geographical skills and tools that you will use in the future. We have learnt about plans, scales, mental maps, sketch maps, real maps, grid references, OS maps, measuring distances between two places on a map, following directions, compass directions, etc

Here you have a very interesting link with information about maps. You can understand this information better as we have explained most of the information in our lessons. Do you see the importance of learning different subjects in the school? :-)