Shape the Future Competition

We gave our Year 8 students the chance to have their say on the new global strategy for development from 2015 and decided to enter the Shape the Future competition.

Our students worked extremely hard, both in Geography lessons and in after school sessions to review the Millennium Development Goals and come up with their own goals. This was our winning entry that has been entered into the competition.....

Shape the future seaford head school from Liz Smith

We would like to thank all of the students that were involved in the competition, including the Year 10 students that acted as mentors. You will be rewarded with certificates and prizes after the Easter Holiday. Well done, you were all fantastic!!! Fingers crossed! :)

'Thinking like a Geographer!'

Thanks to Tony Cassidy for sharing this :)

Year 10 Geographers explore Development Goals...

Thank you to Angus Wilson from the Geographical Association for coming in to school on Thursday to work with a group of our Year 10 Geographers.

Well done to Florence, Dom,George, Ryan, George and Ruth!


Students explored the Millennium Development Goals through posters and activities and produced a display in room 20. The time-lapse video of them that Angus put together appears on the Global Dimension website.

SHS Geographers: Shape the Future!

Year 8 students are being given an exciting opportunity to enter the Shape the Future competition. This is the chance to have your say on the new global strategy for development from 2015.

This clip explains the competition...





More of the details are available on the global dimension website.

 There is this support sheet to help you with your entry........

 

Sessions: 
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday lunch time in room P on the Steyne Site.
Thursday after school on the Arundel Site 3:30-4:30pm.

 Remember that each group will be assigned a top Geographer from Year 10 who will be available each Thursday to give you ideas and guidance about what you could include in your presentation.

Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

You have been learning about how Christmas is celebrated in Ethiopia. Here are some of the Christmas cards and letters that are going to be sent to our link school, Ada Model in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia in time for their Christmas and we will be hoping for some replies later in 2013. Well done everyone, they look great!

Merry Christmas- Melkam Genna!!!

Census Data

Here is an article from The Guardian that shows the latest Census data.

Geography in the News: Storm Sandy Homework

Below is the presentation from the lesson on Storm Sandy.

Hurricane sandy from Liz Smith

The photographs from the Starter activity, taken from the Daily Mail.

Storm Sandy from Liz Smith

Here is the story about New York from the Daily Mail. Here is the story read in class about the aftermath of the storm in Haiti from The Guardian. YouTube clip can be found here. Animation of the formation of a hurricane can be found here. Homework: -After we peer assessed your work in class, you are going to rewrite your 3 paragraphs using your best presentation skills and include information from the lesson. You can also add images, maps and diagrams to inform and improve your writing. Your work may go on display! Thanks to Beccy Pook for her contributions to this presentation.

Morocco 2014

Morocco presentation from Liz Smith

Dancing Matt has some new moves for 2012!

Medals table: The alternative rankings for London 2012

China are doing very well in the Olympics at the moment but how many medals should we expect a country to win, based on its size and wealth? An interesting article from the BBC news website explains more.

Year 9 GCSE Settlement: How is the pattern of land use within cities changing?

Dom...here you go I put it at the top of my blog just for you! Using Google Street View...if you are not familiar with Street View you can watch the demonstration of how to use it here.

Click here to access the map of London with 10 different locations.

Changing Land Use

View more OpenOffice presentations from Liz Smith.

(OCR B GCSE- Theme 2 Settlement).

The Aurora Borealis over Northern Ireland

Should have gone to Northern Ireland!

Check out these pictures captured of the Northern Lights over The Giant's Causeway on Monday.

Iceland 2012

During the Easter holidays from the 10th-14th April, the Geography department at Seaford Head Community College visited Iceland. Here are some of the highlights of the trip............................... We met at school on Tuesday and everyone was very excited. We did experience a little turbulence on the flight, many of our students would say it was a bit like a roller coaster! :/ On arrival at Keflavik airport we were met by a local representative. We visited the Blue Lagoon, formed by the runoff from the geothermal power station of Svartsengi. It was really refreshing to bathe in the outdoor lagoon amid clouds of vapour with mass covered lava formations in the distance. Afterwards we settled into the hotel and enjoyed an evening meal. Our meals at the hotel were all very tasty, with cereal, toast, fruit and continental breakfast on offer each morning and a buffet which offered plenty of salad and hot food each evening.

On Wednesday we went on the Golden Circle Tour. We visited Thingvellir National Park, a remarkable geological site and the most historic site on the island. Thingvellir is the site of the world’s oldest democratic parliament founded in 930. We then continued on to Gullfoss, the Golden Waterfall and one of the most impressive waterfalls in Europe. We got a little wet walking behind it! We also visited sites such as the Great Geysir which spouted up to 30 metres and then visited the geothermal power plant at Hengill. This included a fascinating tour and explained how the Icelanders use the pure energy to produce heating and electricity.

On Thursday we began our day driving from Reykjavik over the Hellisheidi mountain pass, offering a magnificent view of the wide plains formed by glacial rivers. We had frequent views of mountains, including Hekla, the country’s most active volcano. Eyjafjallajokull was also clearly visible and we could still see ash on the ground that caused so much disruption two years ago. We then stopped at more spectacular waterfalls. We stopped to have lunch in the village of Vik and then visited a beach that is flanked by steep bird cliffs rising above the black, wave pounded sands. En-route back to Reykjavik there was an opportunity to visit Myrdalsjokull glacier which all of us found amazing! We made sure we stopped at the little remote café by the glacier for hot chocolate!

Friday 13th started with a drive to see a monument to commemorate Alfred Wegner and his theory of Continental drift- Mrs Key getting extremely excited by this! We then stopped by at the residence of the President of Iceland. The highlight of the day for most was walking between two continental plates at the mid-Atlantic ridge; the Eurasian and North American plates. The students enjoyed being very artistic with the rocks that were scattered around and they thoroughly enjoyed the photographic opportunities. Finally, the day ended with a visit to the Hot Springs- an area where we experienced bubbling mud pools and steam arising from hotspots within the earth’s crust.

The days were very long and packed full of fantastic activities and each evening students were occupied with more, ranging from a quiz, games, a movie, more swimming in a geothermal pool and a celebration night to end the trip.

On Saturday we experienced a pleasant flight back to England. Students and staff were very tired but feeling happy and privileged to have visited Iceland, it was a truly memorable experience for all! Mrs Smith

What a Wonderful World!

This is wonderful clip!!!



Thanks to Beccy Pook for sharing :)

British Isles Cookie Cutters...

Can be purchased here