Flooding in the North of England - I hope you're following events...

Originally posted over on LivingGeography blog…


I never blog over the Christmas and New Year period…

Except for this blog post, which is unprecedented….
Except for that time when I blogged about the S.E Asian tsunami…. and that other time…

What does unprecedented mean?

It's been used quite a few times over the last few days to refer to the rainfall, and seems to be being used as some sort of 'excuse' for the extent of the flooding that has hit Cumbria, Carlisle, and then Leeds, Lancashire and West Yorkshire including Mytholmroyd, and the surrounding area, and now across into York, Selby and Tadcaster. Flood defences have been overwhelmed and a lot of buildings have been inundated, businesses are threatened, and people's homes and possessions have been ruined, in some cases several times, and for many for the first time in living memory. Many of these people didn't have sufficient insurance, and are going to have real trouble getting it now.

Over the last week or so, heavy rainfall has hit the NW and now further east, as several storms have passed through, with Frank due to arrive later today. The rainfall totals are far in excess of seasonal averages, with Shap and Capel Curig amongst places that are being reported as having very high rainfall totals.
My family all live in York, and my dad went into the city centre yesterday to check on the flooding, which has changed the city's mood completely - yesterday there was no internet or phones for some people, and shops were accepting cash only as card payments weren't possible. The city has been flooded before... is it the worst that it has ever been in the city? Is it really unprecedented? Certainly there are more houses and other buildings close to the river channels than ever, and many of these were seen in aerial photographs of the affected areas. There was also the collapse of an important bridge in Tadcaster, and many rivers in North Yorkshire had record levels of flow (or at least since their discharge was recorded)

The headline says it all. Tomorrow's @LeedsNews front page.... #flooding #Yorkshire #Leeds #NorthernPowerhouse pic.twitter.com/1eyNmPDQqd

— YorkshireEveningPost (@LeedsNews) December 27, 2015

Weather is making the news around the world too:
- a deadly swathe of tornadoes in the southern states of the USA
- record levels of water in the Mississippi, which is normally at low levels because the rivers further north are frozen
- huge snowdrifts in Texas...
- over 150 000 affected by flooding in S. America in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and Uruguay.
- 'record' warm temperatures in the Arctic
and many more...
- a record El Nino event...

This Guardian editorial provided a useful context… as did quite a few of the articles in yesterday's paper, and on the website, including an excellent article from the streets of York itself.

Guardian Editorial – 27^th December 2015

The peculiar destructiveness of modern floods arises from complex causes acting over long periods. They are not just a product of unprecedented rainfall, but of well-established patterns of land use and river management. All too often these have been greedy, arrogant, and short-termist: changing them will require co-ordinated efforts, maintained over decades. The way in which the floods have recurred over the past decade does not make for optimism

So is what is happening now truly unprecedented? Or is unprecedented starting to be the new 'normal'?

York is a medieval city which has several rivers running through it, and no doubt has flooded many times before, even worse than the previous 'worst ever floods' in 2000 probably. There have been several tweets which seem to show that that the rivers are really 'reclaiming' areas that used to be watercourses and pools in medieval times. This mirrors something that I used to talk about when I worked for the GA, following the flooding that hit Sheffield and Hull in 2007. "They're called floodplains because they flood" was a quote by Philip Eden on one of the first slides in the presentation, and in the paper yesterday (and today's Independent) it appears that around 10 000 homes a year are still built in flood plains. Indeed, George Monbiot has written about the inevitability of the flooding given the way that upland areas are managed. I also talked in my GA lectures about the changes to insurance coverage that took place.

A few other links I noticed:

• Geogabout blog post with some useful resource links, curated by David Drake
• A N-S divide in flood protection ?
• Gaia Vince writing in the Telegraph
• David Cameron visiting flood victims

The Guardian's editorial:

We will have to make difficult decisions on what can be saved and what must be sacrificed to rising waters, unreliable coastlines and dangerously high rivers. Not all property, not every house, but surely every person can be made safe in this new, warmer time. (That is more than can be said for poorer parts of the world.)

And finally, I've been curating a Pinterest board… no doubt there are some Flipboard magazines out there too...


Follow GeoBlogs's board UK Flooding incl. Dec 2015 on Pinterest.

Don't forget you can also now follow all the main EA river gauges on Twitter via GaugeMap website. These have been followed and tweeted endlessly.

I hope that the recovery continues to show the resilience of these communities, which have already been affected. I expect there to be a reappraisal of flood defences and land-use management, and of return periods, and also the longer-term impacts of almost £6 billion of losses.
Stay safe for the arrival of storm Frank, I hope that nothing unprecedented is about to happen….

Update

Lowest Atlantic pressure last 200 years 913mb Braer Storm 1993; #StormFrank >930mb low but not "unprecedented" pic.twitter.com/xbyejvOsLA

— RGS Weather (@RGSweather) December 30, 2015

Happy Christmas... see you in the New Year...

How old is your house?

You may have an idea… but what about the other houses in your street, or district, or neighbourhood, or across your whole town.
The latest map to be created and shared by Oliver O'Brien of CASA at UCL is now out, and it allows you to see the age of housing in specific areas of cities.
Look at Norwich below, for example, and you can see the different ages at which areas of the city were added to the current shape…
Click for biggery...

These would be very useful for students who wants to unpick the relationship between cities and the traditional urban models.

Shackleton Stamps

Out in January 2016
Details here

Joe Simpson on Desert Island Discs

We've been making use of the Desert Island Discs archive this week, and specifically the episode featuring Joe Simpson from 2004.

Joe talks about the trip to Siula Grande that he made with Simon Yates.

He describes the incidents that will be familiar to those who have read the book 'Touching the Void'

It was interesting for students to read about the incident in Joe's own words and hear his voice. This comes at the end of a project exploring the book, and the geography of it.




Joe has had a lot of people reading the book after it was added to reading lists for various exam specifications, and his message to students on the website reflects the effect of no doubt numerous requests for information and/or e-mails from students saying they'd had to read his book...


You can search the archive to see what people have taken to the desert island as their book or luxury, or who has taken particular pieces of music, or music by particular artists....

25 000 views

Thanks for reading...

Star Wars in the Lake District

Adventure in Landscapes...

Carlisle (and elsewhere) floods

The last weekend saw some extreme weather affecting large parts of the NW.


Year 10 students should be following the events, and the further flooding that has affected Glenridding since.

• What factors led to the flooding?
• Why was it so bad?
• How can there be events with return periods in the hundreds of years so close together?
• What are the physical and human influences on the catchment area?

It's worth following some of the media and also social media, including local BBC Radio stations which have been exploring the wider impacts.

Yes amazing to see the A 591 before and after #floods from @dannysavage @CumbriaUni @CumbriaWeather @cumbrialivetv pic.twitter.com/5glNaWiTo7

— BlencathraFSC (@BlencathraFSC) December 11, 2015

Here's a useful starter picture for example

Flooded shop? No problem! #Carlisle pic.twitter.com/bKccrJXLh8

— Cooper Dowell (@CooperDowell) December 7, 2015

New Danny MacAskill video

This time Danny heads to Gran Canaria, and the rooftops of the town: an urban landscape to explore... Don't look down...

Iceland film evening

Thanks to the parents and students who came along to the Iceland film evening earlier in the week. They were able to see the world premiere of two films that were made: the first cut together the entries for the photo competition, and the rest (set to music) was the story of the trip. We are looking at options for getting copies of that film and the images to all parents as part of the follow-up from the trip.

Here's another Iceland film which I came across tonight via social media feeds.
It's a time lapse of the Solheimajokull glacier, which we walked on, showing what a dynamic feature it is…

Why go to Antarctica on holiday ?

The video we watched today which might help answer that question....




Antarctica from Kalle Ljung on Vimeo.

Year 6 Taster Day

Today was Year 6 taster day. There were 4 groups of around 20 students who I had during the day - some internal students, and others who were visiting for the day for a taste of the school.
We were looking at the idea of exploration and wanted to get the students being creative. The original idea was for them to be outside, but persistent rain during the day put paid to that idea.
Here's the activity we used.
You will need the Lego Learn to Learn Education pack if you want to use that part of the activity, or a lego minifigure per person / group if not...

Year 6 Taster Activity from GeoBlogs

ESRi Global Migration Visualisation

A useful tool for Year 10 and 12.
See the migration to and from each city come to life.
The UK, for example has seen dramatic out-migration as well as immigration.

Shackleton Enduring Eye exhibition

A century ago today, Sir Ernest Shackleton and the crew of the 'Endurance' were camping on the ice after the sinking of his ship - crushed in the ice. They faced possibly the most incredible story ever told, as they proceeded to save the life of everyone involved, with a number of voyages including one in the James Caird to South Georgia.

Parts of the journey were documented by the expedition's photographer Frank Hurley, who managed to save just some of the images that he took.

An exhibition opens today at the Royal Geographical Society, which shows the images, which have been digitised directly from the original glass plates. It runs through to the end of February 2016. I shall be taking this in at some point when I next go to London.

See details about the exhibition, which is free to enter, and an online exhibition on the RGS website here.

You can see a few sample images on this BBC news article about the exhibition.

The RGS has also produced some resources linked to their collections.

And finally, check out William Grill's wonderful picture book of 'Shackleton's Journey' and the associated Activity Book which we have used to produce some interesting resources.

Image copyright: Royal Geographical Society

Back from Iceland and getting ready for the next half term...

Here's the places we visited in Iceland last week on the King's Ely Iceland trip.

More pictures and other materials to follow...

Population stories in the news today

Plenty of population interest in the news today.
Firstly, the announcement from the Chinese news agency Xinhua that the government intends to end the One Child Policy, first introduced in 1980

This is partly due to economic reasons apparently, but also to try to rebalance the country's population. Currently around 30% of the population is over the age of 50. Many of these people may have only one child now to potentially support them in their old age.

A lot of case studies will now have to be re-written.

There was also a story about the UK's population.
There have been some ONS releases relating to the country's median age etc. and the latest forecasts of the UK's growth suggests that were heading for 70 million.

Plenty of interest for GCSE and 'A' level students.

There is also a new visualisation of migration trends here.

Half term...

Half term is here and we hope you have a good rest and return recharged ready for some more Geography. There's plenty ahead of us between now and Christmas for sure.

One for KS1-2 Geographers at King's Ely

Go Jetters are new on CBBC: a new animated series, and the geography advisors on the show are my former colleagues Paula Owens and John Lyon. The Go Jetters have global adventures.

Check them out on iPlayer, or play the Global Glitch game.

Public Radio International on the One Child Policy

The China One Child Policy is now 35 years old.
It was introduced to slow the rate of population growth in the country.

There is a brief piece here which is worth listening to in order to get an idea of the impacts of the policy on the population structure, and the wider Chinese economy in the future.

Demographic Transition Model Video

Excellent work by George, Ben and Louis... good use of iMovie...

This may not work in all browsers...

Five migrant stories from Greece

For Year 10 to watch as a contrast to the DVD case studies.

Save the Children UK

Year 9 have been making their own videos to spread the news of the impact that conflict has on young people.

@KingsElyGeog We're glad the films are making an impact. Would love to hear some of the ideas the young people are coming up with. Steve.

— Save the Children UK (@savechildrenuk) October 12, 2015

No pressure then, but the people who made the original viral videos are interested to see what we produce...

You are here...

Maybe...

If Surrey were Syria

These videos have been available for a while, but today was the first time I'd actually showed them, and they had a powerful impact.
We are thinking of making some of our own versions

Just because it isn't happening here doesn't mean it isn't happening...

UK population pyramid infographic - interact with it...

Graphic by Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Population videos - for Year 12

This is a very useful set of infographics and videos from the French institute for demographics: INED
Check out this one on Fertility rates which we shall be using this week.

These are the sorts of resources that you need to engage with...

And also maps like this...

One for Year 10s - exploring employment and sectors in the UK (using 2011 Census data)

Coming soon to Year 8

Thanks to Miss Kyndt for the heads-up on this activity book to accompany the original book telling the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's journey on the 'Endurance' expedition.

Looking rather fine...

Geography Club ideas

It's the time of year when clubs are setting up and recruiting eager young students who want to develop their Geographical awareness, and have fun.

This year, I'm running a lunchtime club called Geography Explorers, and also using some of the ideas with a group of Year 6 students.
We are making some geography globes and other craft projects.
I have this book, which looks like offering some really useful ideas, and a car boot now filled with practical stuff to assemble into something geographical...

New GCSE books

The cover design for one of 4 GCSE books that Mr. Parkinson is working on at the moment for publication in 2016 has been released on the Amazon ordering page for the book. Got to love the penguins...

How long will you live for ?

A visualisation by the ONS - useful for Year 12 Geographers who are exploring the idea of life expectancy...

Britain's Biggest Adventures

Bear Grylls new series explores Britain's biggest adventures (allegedly).
As always there's a touch of hyperbole about the whole thing...

There was an interesting article in the Telegraph where he described the reasons why he decided to film closer to home rather than in an exotic location, and it's a reminder of the amazing landscapes we have in the UK. This weeks explored the Cairngorms, which I used for a workshop at the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers a few years ago. This used the Robert MacFarlane book 'The Old Ways' and Digimap for Schools.

Demographic Transition Model

We'll be using this today

Internal Migration

A very detailed and valuable resource, shared by our American chum Seth Dixon.

Poppyfield

A visualisation of conflicts since the turn of the 20th Century, with the poppy symbolising the scale, length and severity of the conflict.

Poppyfield is an impressive visualisation, and we used it with Year 9 students to identify conflicts for further research.

Center Parcs: a model for adventure?

Year 7 are designing a leaflet for their proposed adventure / activity centre in the landscape. This has to connect the idea of adventures with that of the landscape...
I've been showing the Center Parcs brochure as a model for what they might be able to produce. There is a connection here between the activities that are offered, and the environment that surrounds them. As a regular visitor, I think there's a lot to be said for this sort of holiday for young people.
And of course, Mission Explore is an essential part of their education.

Scotland's Census

Scotland is sparsely populated right?
We will be looking at the factors which lead to some areas being sparsely populated, and on the basis of the broad look at the population, Scotland does indeed have a sparse population compared to the SE of England...
However, the reality is more nuanced. A choropleth map would shade the whole of Scotland in the same colour if plotted at a national scale. At a regional level, there would be some variations, and a variety of tones depending on the colour ramp that was used.

We will also be using the UK Data Explorer to take a look at some of the Census data from the UK too.

Global Goals - World's largest lesson

We'll be using these materials this week with as many groups as possible.
The new UN Sustainable Development Goals were approved by the UN on Friday, and are now available for discussion.

There is a lesson plan, and some materials here.
Find out more here too.

We'll also be sharing this on the Open Evening later this week.


The Worlds Largest Lesson Introduced by Malala Yousafzai from World's Largest Lesson on Vimeo.

Come and see us...

Open Morning on the 26th of September, and Open Evening on the 29th....
Check the school website for more details.

Syrian Crisis.... in a nutshell

Essential viewing for Year 9, 10, 12 and 13 in particular...

The first few minutes is particularly useful in identifying the underlying causes of the current migrant crisis involving Syrian asylum seekers.

Census Song

Via Rob Chambers

Starting next Tuesday in N2 - come along!

Geography explorers club from GeoBlogs

One for Year 8

This Timeshift programme on Antarctica...

More barriers going up...

A very useful map from the Economist showing some of the current boundaries that have been put up between different parts of the world. Click a country to see where the border lies, and the reasons for its creation.

Thanks to Miss Kyndt for the tipoff for this.
Make sure you follow the @KingsElyGeog twitter feed for more like that...

Migration images

I'm grateful to Duncan Hawley for sending through these images that he took a couple of weeks ago in Budapest. I was due to be present at the same conference, but ended up in Bruges instead. The pictures were taken at the main railway station.

Year 9, 10, 11, and 12 geographers in particular should be able to discuss the circumstances which have led to these scenes.

Images: copyright Duncan Hawley

A Sky News film to watch

600 up...

This blog is now 600 posts old... it's already developing nicely to support students at King's and elsewhere.
Use the search function top left to find posts on specific topics.

Who owns Cambridgeshire?

This Private Eye map shows the land in the UK that is registered as being owned overseas.

Some parts of Ely are registered overseas, including areas close to the school itself. How much of London is actually 'owned' by overseas companies or individuals?

Urban patterns

Year 10 are underway with Population students, and we used Ben Hennig's rather splendid images and mapping (and also with Year 12)
Here's a map from the Independent's i newspaper, which is a great website and Twitter feed to follow for all King's Geographers.

It shows the country where the largest city houses the most people within the population of that country. So Singapore, for example is 100% urbanised and holds 100% of the people of Singapore.

Year 9 conflict homework for the first week

Year 9

Contemporary Conflicts

We discussed conflicts, and produced a conflict continuum. We also identified a possible definition of conflict.

Conflict

"a state of disagreement caused by the perceived or actual opposition of needs, values and interests between people. Geographically, it is often about opposing views about the ways in which a resource may be developed or used. The result is negative tension between the parties involved. A conflict can result in disagreement, harsh words, armed conflict or even war".

Identify a picture which shows some sort of 'conflict', based on one of the scales we looked at in the lesson.

1. Why did you choose the image.
2. What conflict is it connected with, & on what scale is this happening?
3. Identify 5 questions that it poses that you want answers to

The picture of Aylan Kurdi was used to show the power of an image...

GI Learner project - startup...

For the next 3 years, King's Ely Geographers are going to be involved in a project with a number of EU partners (schools, universities and other partners) called GI-LEARNER. I am co-ordinating the involvement of the school.

I've mentioned the project previously, but am currently in Bruges for the start-up meeting, where we have been discussing the practicalities of setting up the various events, activities, research and resource creation that is going to occupy us for the next few years, along with around 100 students of ages from 7-13.

I shall be recruiting 12 King's Ely students from Year 7, and 12 from Year 10 - get in touch if you would like to be involved in the potential of working with schools in a number of locations, and sharing our work in Madrid in 3 years time.

Partner representatives exploring Bruges

The partners involved are:

Four schools

Sint-Lodewijkscollege, Bruges, Belgium 

King’s Ely, Cambridgeshire

Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium Salzburg, Nonntal, Austria 

Liceul Teoretic "Dimitrie Cantemir" Iasi, Romania

Two universities

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 

Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium

European Association of Geographers  (EuroGeo)

You can follow our Twitter feed here: @GILearner where we will be sharing more information on our project and how it develops.

Watch out for the #gilearner hashtag too.

The school is also involved in the MOOS project, and the attractive website for this project is here.

Extreme sports

Source: Best Health Degrees Helpful for Year 9 exploring the notion of risk...

'A' level results

Congratulations to all King's Ely students who picked up their 'A' level results yesterday.

Fingers crossed for next week and the GCSE results.

UPDATE: Congratulations on the GCSE results too

Exam results

Best wishes to those receiving their exam results tomorrow, and next Thursday, and to those who may already have received iGCSE results too.

Food Waste

Food waste has been a major issue that we have studied in Year 7.
The Guardian has had a series of articles this week on the issue, with the shocking conclusion that if we cut food waste, we could deal with problems of food shortages.

For every 2 tonnes of food and drink consumed in the home, another tonne is going to waste at some point in the chain

David Moon, head of ​food ​​sustainability at W​rap UK

There are the 3 useful recent Guardian articles to go along with this issue here, here and here.

More to come on this in the new school year.

Yorkshire - an adventurous landscape ?

When the Tour de France came to Yorkshire from Welcome to Yorkshire on Vimeo.

ONS Life Expectancy calculator

End of Year

A week in to the summer, and time to pause for a moment and reflect on my 2nd year back teaching after my break...
It was a bit of a headlong year, with plenty of successes, and more learning from me as I got used to the rhythm of the year, and squeezed in visits to many places and wrote many tens of thousands of words too...
Next year promises to be even more exciting, and action packed, and I'll blog about that nearer the end of summer...

Here's an image I took in the Cathedral at the end of the service to mark the end of year.

I'll be back in 6 weeks or so, to start the third year of this blog, but for now, have a great summer!
Thanks to all those who have visited and read... 

An award for King's Ely

From the Principal's end of year letter....

We heard that we had been nominated for an award from Education Business Awards, an organisation in its tenth year of providing recognition for successful investment in education across all sectors of Primary and Secondary education nationally.

We don’t know who nominated us, but we are very grateful to whoever it was because, at the award ceremony in London today, we won the ICT Facility Award for the ‘educational establishment in the UK that has made outstanding progress in the provision of a first class environment for the teaching of ICT and related subjects’.
The entry in the programme read:

King’s Ely is quickly gaining a reputation as a trailblazer when it comes to the use of ICT. Despite its mediaeval buildings, the school is making advancements in ICT provision including four computer rooms, Bring-Your-Own-Device initiatives and taking part in a Europe-wide Erasmus project to build digital resources.

Discover the World's new video

Later this year, 50 students and 6 staff will head out to Reykjavik for the Iceland trip. To get you in the mood, here's a video made by Discover the World: the company we are using for our trip.

Cheddar Gorge being formed...

Some excellent play dough work last week as we prepared for Open Morning.
Here's Cheddar Gorge being formed, with the ice age river flowing through the nascent gorge and even forming caves where it swirls into gaps in the cliffs on either side.

Geography in the News

As always, stories we are studying in Geography are very much in the news.
New for this year is the #trendinggeography board, where subjects in the news can be displayed: an idea gained from Twitter.

What do you think are the most #trendinggeography stories of the weekend ?

Pole to Pole to Bourne...

Mr. Parkinson was up in Lincolnshire today sharing the work we do at King's Ely with a group of teachers ...
Here's the presentation he used for those who are interested...

GeoLincs from GeoBlogs

Cathedral view

During last week's service at the Cathedral, the sun shining through the stained glass produced a wonderful lighting... I hope you enjoy this special place when you visit each week.

Bonus merits for students who point out any features of specific geographical interest...

California bans microbeads...

And here's another story... California has voted to ban plastic microbeads.

Microbeads are typically smaller than five millimetres in diameter, but are a significant source of water pollution, with one jar of facial cleanser containing up to 300,000 tiny plastic pieces that wash down drains and accumulate in lakes, rivers and oceans.

Google Oceans

A useful video exploring the power of Google Ocean, within Google Earth.

Mapping ocean plastics

A new addition to the unit of 'The Geography of Stuff' has been an exploration of the ocean and ocean plastics. We discussed the nature of the plastic that makes its way into the oceans, and included some cartoons, to include the source of many of the plastic microbeads, which are included in a lot of personal grooming products.

Ocean plastics are a growing problem - not that they haven't been around for years, but because we are now realising that they are finding their way into small fish.

There is a nice interactive map on this link.

Ban on throwing away food...

As always, the topics we cover in Geography at King's continue to appear in the news and be topical.
This time, it's food waste, and a story that large supermarkets in France (and perhaps elsewhere) face a ban on throwing away food.
As we've already said, wasted food is wasted water... and effort...

Coming soon to a Geography lesson near you...

King's Ely geographers featured in 'The Guardian'

Our work that we have been doing in Year 7 on the Oceans was featured in the Guardian's Teacher network section today.
Miss Kyndt and I's work for the last few years got a write-up. A few slight changes from what I originally sent through, but a nice summary of the work we've done on our 'You are what you eat' unit.
Well done on all your hard work during the exams as well.

You are what you eat project

Alan Parkinson, geography teacher at King’s Ely in Cambridgeshire, taught oceans as part of a year 7 unit. He introduced the “you are what you eat” project to teach about food issues and sustainable resourcing.

Students were introduced to the various methods used to catch fish and their effect on the environment. They constructed models of trawlers with string to visualise the impact on the sea floor, and investigated more sustainable alternatives, such as farming fish like sea bass and tilapia.

Using paper plates and cardboard cut-outs, the children made fish and chips dishes with messages written on them. Each fish explained why it was threatened, whether by overfishing or pollution, while the chips were labelled with ideas for helping the fish to survive, such as introducing no-catch zones.

Students were then asked to create an eco-friendly menu. They had to select three meals and, using their new knowledge, ensure each delicacy was sustainable, for example, using locally sourced ingredients and avoiding overfished species such as cod and haddock. They linked up with the food technology department, and some groups were allowed to cook their dishes.

The key idea of the unit is to show how human activity effects the environment. The unit also helps students develop their inquiry skills, using digital mapping to source and locate suppliers of fish.

Parkinson says the variety of different activities involved in this project went down well with students. “From making the menus, the students started to see how decisions we make on a daily basis have an impact on other people and other places. It helped them appreciate the understanding of sustainability, and explore ideas like seasonality, animal welfare and food miles.”

Lego - photo challenge

You may remember last year that the Daily Mail had a Lego give-away and I encouraged you to get an Arctic explorer figure to use in our lessons, or as a prop in films. The give-away is back, and there are 2 relevant sets this time: the tractor for Year 7s (Wednesday) and the city bin lorry for Year 8 (Thursday) - food and 'stuff'...

Merits to those KEJ students who send me a photo of their new vehicle in an appropriate setting...

Coming soon for Year 7