Found this in todays independent, Absolut Vodka have been causing trouble in the USA and Mexico with one of their latest adverts.

For some more information on the history of Mexican-Americans have a look at this on wikipedia.

This is mainly for the GCSE groups and their cross unit task but if you to the weblink below you will find a list of websites that the current year 10s have put together on the rainforest, have a look through them there should be a wide range.  If you see something on there twice let me know the same applies if you see something that shouldn’t be there.

Rainforest Weblinks

His mission…to help a forest community map their land before the loggers arrive

Three years after his first foray (Raiders of the Lost Bark), Congo Jones returns. The game challenges players to map and protect the Congo rainforest by working with local communities living in the forest. Jump logs, climb waterfalls and avoid the chainsaws to help gain legal protection for rainforest peoples and their land.

Click here to go to the website 

Thanks to Miss Taylor for this one, who in an effort to be cool has taken an interest in Geography.  You get five minutes to name all the countries in Europe (though you do have to spell them correctly)  How many can you get?  What about the countries you didn’t get?  Why do you think that could be?

European Country Game 

Here is your task sheet for the shopping coursework task-sheet.doc. 

Here are the results from the survies from Bath Street and Cotmanhay Road 2007 Shopping Survey Results

Year 8s homework this week is based around using the National Statistics website.  Open the site and in the ‘Find statistics for any area’ section put your postcode.  This will bring up statistics for Erewash as a district.  You should scroll down and select ‘Crime and Safety.’  You should get a page up with 6 links on.  Using these links fill in the sheet you were given with the relavent statistics for Erewash, the East Midlands and England.   You could also choose another postcode outside of Erewash to compare with.

Once you have completed the worksheet you should write about 200 words to describe the level of risk in your local area.

Here’s an interesting idea I came across whilst trawling the internet at ungodly hours.  Will you be buying anything on saturday?  I hope it only applies to shops otherwise there is no way I will be taking part!!

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/ 

If you click here then it take you some of the pictures year 8 took of clouds as part of their homework, along with a nice picture of Hornsea thanks to Mr Hawksworth and some pictures of my trip to China that I have also uploaded. I don’t know which pictures belong to who though because my phone didn’t let me edit the file name when you sent them me so if you know a photo is yours let me know, and if you want to comment on them then feel free.

Year 8 were set homework to imagine they were being affected by Hurricane Dean, Chloe and Zoe in 8a1 decided to record their homework which can be found by following the links below, hopefully at some point they will be uploaded onto this site. Some excellent work and accents.

I have moved the files to 4shared so you should be able to listen to them here and they are now mp3 files.

This map shows the movement of Hurricanes Felix and Henriette over the 5th and 6th of September.  A video can be found here on the Guardian website.

There are also some really good pictures here.