Holidays

Hello everyone - I hope you are enjoying your holidays whether at home or abroad. We have returned from our visit to Cornwall, Devon and Dorset and over the next few posts I hope to give you a flavour of some of the places we have visited.

Have you been noticing how many geographical items there have been in the news this last few weeks ?

The terrible flooding as a result of torrential rain particularly effecting Sheffield. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6240038.stm

The poor weather in June and July has had everyone talking about what a disappointment it has been after the beautiful weather of April.

"Appalling June weather is not unusual. The wettest June of the previous century occured ten years ago, with 133.7mm (5.3in) of rain. Wimbledon was affected so badly that matches were played on the middle Sunday of the championships for just the second time. It was also so cold that snow fell on the Cairngorms on the last day of the month. Although those levels of rainfall are unlikely to be passed this month, the record for the wettest May and June months combined could be challenged. "

Read the whole article here http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article1985748.ece

Lewis Pugh - the lawyer who swam 1km in freezing water at the North Pole as part of an awareness campaign about global warming. follow the link for the TImes report about his swim

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2080612.eceticle2080612.ece

Welcome to Advanced Higher

An icy post on Cairngorm - Mike Pennington


Loch Avon - John Armitage



Erosion gully - Lochnagar - Pete Chapman

Lochnagar - Colin Smith

A medley of geographical photos from the geograph web site for you tol look at.

I have your folders ready for us to make a start tomorrow. We will be concentrating on ideas for your Issues essay and Geographical Study. These are so important as this folio makes up 70% of the marks for AH. ( 30% for essay, 40% for Study.) A lot of the work is fieldwork and skills based and it is important that you keep up to date with all your work and deadlines. I will give you the deadline dates sheet for Autumn Term in August.

Welcome to Higher Geography

Welcome to your new Higher Geography course.

As you know we are starting the GMT's in these last few weeks of term and will start the detailed course work in August. I am sure you will enjoy the course - there are new topics to find out about and a few familiar themes that we will look at in more detail. Make sure you arrange to have your text books readys for the start of term. Keep referring to the blog for useful hints and links to web sites. Work hard and remember my saying of "don't just meet a deadline beat a deadline !"

All the best to Higher & Advanced Higher candidates

Well here we are at the end of a year of hard work - well done to all of you. We have had a lot of fun. I have certainly enjoyed teaching you all. Keep calm and sleep well tonight ! Coast photos from Geography Photos as a final bit or revision for the Higher class can you name the features ?

Keep on going ....

Striding Edge and Red Tarn

Stickle Tarn

Thirlmere - what type of feature is this and where is it found ?

Almost there now folks - hope you have had a useful day of revision today and have enough energy left for tomorrow too ! Don't forget to vary your revision methods - practice questions, reading the blogs, using revision notes, testing yourself, using the interactive web sites to name but a few.

Some lovely glaciation photos for you this evening taken by my good friend and available to us via Geography photos. Could you describe the formatiom of these features ?

M is for ....

Nice to have seen some of you in school today. I hope the rest of you are keeping fit and healthy in this last few days.

A poser to start with tonight. Read the title and add your own words - relevant to Paper 2. M is for ...... - think of at least 5. Remember specific examples / figures /place names are absolutely crucial to get as many marks as possible in your 25 mark answers.

Practice a few question to time - 35 mins per question to be safe.

RLR The format of RLR questions was slightly different last year - do not be put off - read all parts of the question very carefully, look at the number of marks for each sub section. Will it be coasts this year ? - who knows but you must be prepared for all 3 - glaciation, limestone & coasts.

D & H Ensure you know your indicators, read the question very carefully - is it asking about differences between or within a country ? Named examples - use your figures !

Photos tonight from the limestone area of the Dordogne in France

Keeping your eye on the ball

Using a football analogy in the title today - keep on track and keep going not much further now ! I know some of you have had a long period of revision and others still have exams on Friday to do first. Those last few days of work will be worth it ! I have heard from some of you over the last few days with queries. Don't forget to look over the blog links I have given you over the year and I will keep you calm on Monday morning. Today I have been writing my course review of the last year and of course you have all had a special mention ! IIIS fieldwork yesterday and we had wonderful weather.

The photo is of Thornton Force waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales - could you draw a diagram to help explain how it has formed ?