Year 9 - Google Earth Projects

The students in Year 9 have been investigating the growth of tourism and how it has led to increased interconnections between places. For our final project, the students were asked to devise a route between Southampton, UK, and Cape Town, South Africa in the Year 1937. They had a number of considerations to think about when they were devising their routes from not being able to fly at night, only being able to go a maximum of 1200km before refueling, the politics of the time and importantly they had to land on water. The students worked hard to not only create a route but also calculate the maths and justify their choices. Please click on the links to visit the students’ projects.

Student One - Southampton to Cape Town

Student Two - Southampton to Cape Town

Student Three - Southampton to Cape Town

Student Four - Southampton to Cape Town

Student Five - Southampton to Cape Town

Student Six - Southampton to Cape Town

Year 10 - Exploring Population Pyramids

As part of the unit which explores population change the Year 10 Geography classes have been investigating population structures. To do this they were introduced to population pyramids which are graphical representations of the age and sex structure of a specific country. To try and make a series of graphs more ‘fun’ the classes used Lego to create population pyramids for various countries. The students will now use the graphs as a starting point to question why a countries age - sex structure is as it is and whether they can be used to plan for a change in resources in the future.

Year 7 - Bronze Age Cities Videos

The Year 7s have been investigating specific Bronze Age Cities to discover different aspects of specialisation. To do this the students were given city states from different continents. One group created a series of videos to inform their peers of their new discoveries.

Year 11 - International Relations - Global Hotspots

Students in the year 11 International Relations and Global Politics options course were introduced to the idea of global hotspots by their teacher - through a case study of China and her neighbours - focusing on land and maritime disputes that have international significance.

Concurrently, the students in the class each worked on individual geopolitical hotspots using a structure designed by their teacher. While they were investigating and researching their chosen hotspot (from among a pre-selected list by the teacher for their suitability for study) the students began to create/write their individual pages on this Google Site: https://sites.google.com/view/nationsnewsreporter/home.

A selection of student pages is available for you to read and they hope you find it interesting. Click on any of the links on the homepage and this will take you straight to the named hotspot.

As adults (parents and teachers) viewing the site, we need to remind ourselves that this is the work of 15 and 16 year olds; as such it shows their insights into some of the world's troubled regions at an age when they are just beginning to develop a gradually more adult insight into the complexities of international relations. The students completed the work by reflecting on the probable, possible, and in some cases preferable futures for their global hotspot.

Year 12 - Exploring River Landforms

The Year 12 Geography classes have been studying the different fluvial landforms that are created by the processes of erosion and deposition. The class was divided up to investigate a specific landform and to create a guide to inform their peers how the landform was created.

Year 7 - i-spy River Landforms.

The Year 7s have been focusing on what a process is and how we need to understand a process to have knowledge of change. To do this the students have learnt about four specific river landforms and how they are formed. For the students to show their knowledge of a process they completed an i-spy guide to river landforms.

Year 8 - Climate Change

The Year 8s have been investigating the importance of climate change. They have learnt about the causes and the potential impacts. They have also explored how climate change may impact their lives when they are 65 by investigating the possibilities of change in the future. Below are examples of in-class essays the students wrote on climate change.

Year 13 - Climate Change Mitigation

The Year 13 geographers have been investigation the causes and consequences of climate change. To try and off-set our impact they have explored various different methods of mitigation. While some such as the atmospheric mirror may sound like it was taken out of a James Bond film there is an element of validity and in all of the geo-technological solutions. See below for the students’ Google Slide presentations.

Year 12 - National Resource Security

The Year 12 geographers have been investigating the idea of the nexus and how it is essential for countries to be resource secure. If a country is not secure in either their food, water or energy this could have a detrimental impact on their level of development. Below are two essays which compare the UAE and Switzerland and how resource secure they are.

Year 8 - Hurricanes

The Year 8s have been exploring how certain weather events can be catastrophic for certain areas of the world. They have learnt about the process of how a hurricane occurs, what the different categories mean and the damage that can be caused. The group were then asked to investigate a hurricane event of their choice and to create a newspaper report of their findings. Examples of these reports are below.