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Geography Summer Challenge

Over the summer holidays, students across the College
had the opportunity to take part in the Geography
Summer Challenge. The Challenge aimed to
encourage students to engage in activities relating to
Geography in their free time. The competition involved
students selecting ten activities from a menu of
challenges and collecting evidence of completing
each as they went along. Some of the tasks included:
• Squish It – Taking a photograph of students squishing
a physical feature between their thumb and forefinger.
• Get Out – Taking a nature walk in three different
places and recording the nature students saw
• Upcycle – Upcycle a piece of furniture or an item of
clothing. Students submitted their entries to the
Geography Department and after much deliberation
Poppy Billman was awarded 1st place for an incredible
piece of work which demonstrated great effort and
enthusiasm. Poppy’s work was such high quality it has
been entered into a national competition run by
Internet Geography. Well done Poppy!

10 Sustainability Group

Longtimber Woods Fieldtrip

As part of our current Geography unit on the Living World
looking at the ecosystem structure and interdependence, we
got to visit our local temperate deciduous woodland at
Longtimber woods. We are fortunate to have this on our
doorstep. We could walk there in lesson and it allowed us to
see and understand many of the things we had been learning
about in class. Some of the activities we did included creating
a soundscape, identifying the local tree species and looking at
species diversity in a small area. My favourite part of the visit
was the tree identification task as it allowed us to better
understand the diversity of our local woodland and now we
can compare to our current tropical rainforest case study.
Overall, it was a good trip as it allowed us to experience and
better understand our local woodland case study and gain a
Reuben Flint 09SBR and George White 09MSH better appreciation for the beauty of where we live.

An opportunity not to be wasted!

On 6 June 2022, three Year 7 Geography classes had a visitor talk
to them about sustainability. His name was Tim Rotheray [Director of ESG
and External Affairs at Viridor]. Viridor is a recycling, renewable energy
and waste management company that operates across the whole of the
UK. Tim talked to us about the different ways in which Viridor is fighting to
be completely sustainable. We are currently studying sustainability so he
taught us about the different ways of doing so. He also spoke about the
use of energy that was used every year at the Viridor site. Many of the
children in Year 7 were very engaged and asked many questions. Tim
talked about his ways in trying to be a more sustainable family. Sofia said
that, “it was very interesting learning from someone who does a job in the
sustainability community,“ and many other students felt the same way.
No one was too shy to ask what they wanted - so much so that some of
the teachers had to email Tim other questions that students wanted to
know the answers to! Anna Coates 7BOW

Character Education . . . Courage, Honesty and Athenticity