The Appleton Geography Blog

Year 7 students, please read the first 3 blog pages on Ethiopia that I wrote  – Click on  “Ethiopia”  in the word cloud opposite.

Once you have read about Mekele, and perhaps after some more research using a search engine  visit our wallwisher site here  – http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/ethiopia2012   and using one or two sticky notes explain what you have learnt so far about Mekele.

This homework is due in on Tuesday 24th April.

Mr. Hunt

I asked my Year 7 students to write down words that they think of when thinking of the Birth of Jesus. This is what they came up with…

This is how Matthew re-tells the  story

How about Luke?
  

 

Why are they different?

Three great new websites have just hit cyber space today, check them out!

http://www.spotdesign.co.uk/jasonhawkes/       A great photo site of the 2012 site in London

http://www.channel4.com/news/tsunami-revisited     A Tsunami website where Channel 4 looks back at the event in Japan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/25/china-one-child-policy-benefits-rules    Looking at the effects of the One child policy.

Let the geography team know what you think of the sites!

Don’t forget if you need extra help with your controlled assessment – low control stage, pop in to S4 on a thursday from 3-4pm to go through the areas and skills you are having problems with.

Welcome to  all parents and students visiting The Appleton School tonight – Making sure you pop along to the Humanities room S3.

• We are exploring the Slave trade….
• Recording where our visitors are coming from…
• Creating a shanty town…
• Exploring Humanities websites….
• Displaying students work….
• Asking our link schools in Africa a question….

Well done to all staff and pupils that have been involved in the International schools award over the last year. We were successful in gaining the award for a further 3 years!

Calling all yr 11 students. I am available in S4 all lunchtimes this week – from 1.15 till 1.40 for a debrief of your exam performance – I can tell you what you got for each question, but until I get some of the papers back, I can not give you specific guidance.

Now that the summer holidays are here – don’t forget that the learning doesn’t stop! You are now on one big 6 week fieldtrip!

Explore the local geography  – take photos, draw pictures, make a scrapbook! We would love to see them!

Missed my lesson the other day? Want to refresh your memory and check what we did – here are the powerpoint links.

A short starter video on Population pryamids.

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/159460

And another which links to the dependency ratio

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/159463