8Ts Earthquake Drill!

8T acted out what to do if an earthquake hit our school! Obviously you are NOT to panic if an earthquake was really to happen….

Click on the video below to see the action…

Geography Classrooms of the future

We have a new challenge for you! As a department, we are currently thinking about how to redesign the layout and structure of our classrooms. This is because, over the next few years, alot of changes will occur around STM – especially with TEACHING and LEARNING!!!

If you have been selected to complete the questionnaire, please could you click on the link below…

QUESTIONNAIRE

Thanks for completing our survey!

Mrs Adams

Silver DoE Practice Expedition

Silver Practice Expedition to Kinder Scout 2008

Rob, Greg, Liam, Hannah, Laura, Lee, Jen and Abi survived the climb from Edale to Kinder Scout moor on Saturday. In fact they found the ascent the easiest bit! The view from the top of Kinder Scout was spectacular, and so was the weather…

The verdict on the way home was, as Mr Wootton says, “failing to prepare is preparing to fail!” Next time – hats, sunglasses and suncream are a must! Plenty of water is also required so Miss Smith’s supplies are not used up!!

Overall though, a successful venture. The team was able to practise key orienteering skills of route finding and micro navigation… even the moors was no obsticle for them!

Looking forward to the Snowdon assessed expedition in July…!!!

   

 

 

Year 9′s Earthquake Drill!

WE HAVE HAD SEVERAL EARTHQUAKES AT STM RECENTLY!!

Watch the following footage to find out what happened in room 15 at the time of the earthquake.

The 10 second earthquake rattled afew tables, but luckily nothing collapsed – good job really!

Here is 8M’s efforts from yesterday!

And here is Year 9 (set 1)’s efforts too…!

Spookily enough, Stoke-on-Trent did actually experience an earthquake on the 27th February, 2008! 5.2 on the Magnitude scale… it certainly woke me up!

 See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7266668.stm for an indepth report on the recent earthquake.

Whitby AS level Fieldtrip 2008

Wave cut notch…2007

Having just recently returned from a FANTASTIC fieldtrip to North Yorkshire… it was great to upload lots of photos (some interesting ones) from all the fabulous work we have done.

We started with our coastal processes data collection along West cliff beach in Whitby…

Wave cut Notch 2008

On the second day… we travelled across the moors to Scarborough. A typical tourist resort??

 The third day involved a mixture of rivers work at Falling Foss and Throstle’s Nest and a trip down into Whitby CBD itself. But do you think Whitby is a town of two halves??

 

 Over the next few wekks, the AS level Geographers will be creating the most brilliant projects yet! Each student will research and present a title of their choice, based on the collection of data over the 4 day fieldtrip. We wish all those students lots of hard work!

Try the following website for information regarding tourism, coastal management, the economy, town centre management and much more…

www.scarborough.gov.uk/

DEADLINE for projects – day before you break up for EASTER!

Have I Got News for You…

The whole bin saga has started again… do we reduce the size of our bins, do we have fortnightly collection… with the aim of getting folk to recycle more! Anything to reduce our waste problem I reakon… What do you think?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6932781.stm 

Foot and Mouth hits Britain (again)…

This reminds me of February, 2001… how disasterous this disease can be for agricultural/rural communities. I just hope this time we can contain it…

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/science_nature/footandmouthindex.shtml for an excellent interactive map… 

Britain in Flood… 

Doh!!!

For a full and indepth review of the recent floods see the BBC website below:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6914876.stm  

Carbon Footprints… 

Check out this new advert published this week on the BBC. The advert encourages the public to become more aware about their carbon footprints… here is the advert…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6914876.stm  

Calculate your own carbon footprint on this excellent website. you may need to quiz your parents over some of the answers!! Then explain to them how environmentally damaging they are! Have fun…

http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html

A link to the news article is…

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2122319,00.html#article_continue

Celebrity Big Butterfly 2007

Back by popular demand, it is Celebrity Big Butterfly 2007. The 5 celebrities are doing marvellous, and are excited about their task this week which is to double in size. We wish the housemates, Bill Bryson, David Attenborough, Bear Grylls, Michael Palin and Ray Mears all the best for a great experience.

Coming soon… you will be able to vote housemates out of the house…! 

Excuse the error… it is 2007! I couldn’t record that again… 

Well… 7 days have passed. Bear, Bill, David, Ray and Michael, our housemates, have all passed their task as they are all 5cm in length. This means of course that as ALL of the housemates have achieved the task… that ALL of them are up for eviction this week!!

Today… the housemates have enjoyed a spot of sunbathing. Bill and David however stayed in the shade discussing nature. whereas, Bear and Ray went on an adventure climb right to the ceiling of the Big Butterfly House where they relaxed in the sunshine for a few more hours. Active housemates. Michael has just been munching on the forever swamp supply in the kitchen of the Big Butterfly House. you can tell only men live in this house – what a mess! The house mates will soon be preparing themselves for Bear Grylls’ Birthday party…

Sunday 10th May… Michael has got fat quick and is at present danging from the BB house roof, letting his food go down. Ray and Bill are sitting at the dining room table discussing Sustainability (a previous housemate). David is out in the BB garden searching for insects – all he has managed to find in caterpillars. 9.30pm Big Butterfly has delivered Bear a birthday party invitation in the Diary Room at 10.00pm tonight…

Monday 11th June. 20.59p.m – Bear is the only housemate not to have gone to sleep in his homemade silk blanket… active housemate. must be all that basil. He has spent the whole day climbing the walls of the house behaving like Spiderman! David, Bill and Michael are all fast asleep, and Ray is contemplating it… for more info watch the vid…

Wednesday 13th June… 9.00pm in the BB house. The housemates have been really busy today. There task set by Big Butterfly was to create a unique silk costume for the next live show. All 5 housemates eventually completed their task. Bill was first, followed by Dave, then Bear, Michael and finally Ray who was not enjoying having to show his creative side. All housemates are now resting up ready for the big live eviction.

Please vote for the housemate who you want to be evicted next week. Please state a clear reason why your chosen housemate should be evicted.

Thanks to those who have voted. the votes are in…

The 2nd eviction video has been sold on ebay sorry… the third…

and the winner is…

Thanks to geogsoc for releasing the housemates into the wild.

That is it now for Big Butterfly, until another year…

Recommended website/blog of the week…

Take a look at this weeks HOT BLOG… Rebecca groccott, our recently appointed head Girl has created a school blog where you can comment to your hearts content…! Well done Beck!

http://www.stthomasmore.wordpress.com  

Geogames, puzzles and more…

Here are some fun games to help you improve your Geography knowledge! have fun!!

Weather games…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/multimedia/games/  

Places in the world…

http://games.vmn.net/game/11000/Geography-Game—Africa.html

http://games.vmn.net/game/11001/Geography-Game—South-America.html

http://games.vmn.net/game/11002/Geography-Game—Middle-East.html

For Map Zone Games… http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/games.html

Test your geography knowledge…

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/

Disaster Games – these 5 games are EXCELLENT!

http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/  

Farming games…

Fancy being a ’3rd world farmer?’ http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/index_content.html

If anyone finds a good game let me know and I will add a link to the blog…!

Photo of the Week!

Can you guess where this photograph has been taken?

Last week’s photo was…

…taken in the Nevada desert.

 

…but where in the world has this week’s photo been taken?

Leave your answer in the comments box below…