Fieldwork - a great start to the year

I hope you have all caught up on sleep now after our fieldwork excursion - great work from everyone. It is a really good opportunity to get to know people better and to spend time with people outside your normal friendship groups and of course a great chance to do some real Geography. For the HIgher class a good way to start the session, and we will attend Pupil Conference in November and also complete some more fiedlwork at the end of the year. Thank you so much for the lovely flowers for me and the chocolates for Mrs Ch - a lovely surprise for both of us.

Results and holidays

I hope you like these photos of St Ives, Land's End and the Eden Project.

Well done everyone - great results. I am delighted for you. For those of you going on with your studies I look forward to working with you next year. To those of you who are not carrying on with Geography I wish you all the best in your studies at Higher/ Advanced Higher /degrees - your core skills wil be very relevant in other subjects too. I am always interested to hear your news so keep in touch.

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 ?