Bennerley Geography

Year 6 Day Monserrat

Mark Storey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:29:11 +0000

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.

Year 9 Homework 30th September

Mark Storey — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:49:45 +0000

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.

The Trade Game

Mark Storey — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:41:39 +0000

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

Mobile Phones

Mark Storey — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:26:45 +0000

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.

Mission Explore

Mark Storey — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:20:06 +0000

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/

Playing about on Wordle

Mark Storey — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:32:24 +0000

Why not have a go at makin g 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.

Headlands by Year 10

Mark Storey — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:08:36 +0000

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?

Where would we be without bees?

Mark Storey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:26:15 +0000

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.

Last flight of the honeybee?

Enterprise Day June 2008

Mark Storey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:19:16 +0000

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

Sustainable Sex

Mark Storey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:29:23 +0000

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.