Year 6 came up today and tried to manage a volcanic eruption, how did you think it went, feel free to post a comment.  Thanks to juicy geography for the resources.

Produce a profile on a Billionaire
Who are they?
How have they made their money?
What sector(s) is their business in
Have they done anything which is positive? (think about charity etc)
Is their money ethical? (If you don’t know what this means then Google it)

Due in in two weeks time please.

Year 9 are taking part in the Trade Game this week, your homework is post a comment to this post explaining:

what you have learnt
what you thought about the game
what you enjoyed
what you disliked

I read a story about mobile phones and wars whilst eating my roll and sausage sunday morning which is here, and Victor on the SLN forum has put together a mystery about The Congo and mobile phones which year 8 are going to have a go at.  You can watch a video about this too.

 

Got sent a link to this on Facebook by Tony Cassidy down at Kirk Hallam, number 51 would have been brilliant if Mr Bell was still here, don’t really think mines a proper beard so don’t go trying it on me!!

http://www.missionexplore.co.uk/

Why not have a go at making one of these on wordle, just put in the words you want, click create and then you can play about with the layout. Have a go at making on the topic you are studying at the moment, print them off and we’ll get some of them up on display.

You can have a look at the first part of a piece of work by year 10 by following this link.  They have made models of Headlands and the erosional landforms created there.  They will be putting together the whole process together into PowerPoints soon.  Can you name the features on the models and how they have formed, and what do you think of their work?

Last flight of the honeybee?

Most of you have probably seen the adverts for the new film ‘The Happening’ starring Boston Boy Mark Wahlberg.  He’s a science teacher who asks his class about the disapperaing bees.  Now my original theory of everyone being stung by a giant bee made out of all the bees that had been hiding in a big cave has since been proved wrong but I found this article on the Guardian Newspaper website which makes a very interesting read about what could happen if bees went the way of the French at Euro 2008.  Have a read and put your comments on here.

Following from a year 7 lesson from our Inspirational People lessons, Mrs Burlsem and I are going to be running our Enterprise Day activity around the idea of reusable bags.  Year 7 have already learnt something about the issue and about Rebecca Hosking who campaigned to get plastic bags banned in her home town of Modbury.  Wirksworth in Derbyshire has also moved in this direction and according to BBC news Derbyshire County Council are interested in taking a county wide approach, so do you really need that plastic bag, or could you get a reusable one and do something for the environment?

If you didn’t take part in the lesson you can find the information sheets used by clicking here and downloading them

The Brazilian government has started producing condoms from the Amazon Rainforest using rubber from the trees.  Those of you who have seen the film ‘The Burning Season’ will have seen the pratice of rubber tapping used to extract the rubber.  The area being used for the rubber is in the Chico Mendes reserve in the state of Acre, named after Chico a famous conservationist.

Read the story from the BBC here.