We have a new home...

Mr. P and Miss S have moved into new classrooms over in Bishop Woodford House. 

Some pupils will still have their lessons in the New Block, but we will be in the 'new new' block!

We are enjoying our location and once the construction work going on around us finishes at Christmas time, we will be in an even better location, with easier access to both the Prep School and the Senior School.

I've been setting up my new room over the last few weeks - still a way to go.

More to come on Bishop Woodford himself in a future blog post...

Tutor2U have shared a good set of classroom posters for those who need some display materials.

New posters for Geography rooms

 

Had several of these made by Dan at Doodle to link with our schemes of work in geography at King's Ely Junior and also my GA Conference theme. A1 frames from Athena. 

Just need to find somewhere to hang them now...

Hans on the wall...

Ready for the start of new term.


Hans Rosling is up on the wall with the Factfulness poster next to him.

Made with the Rasterbator website.

This will make a 6 x 3 grid - A4 or A4 portrait. Use the trim lines to trim the pages to overlap and line up each page. Work out your size first...

Gapminder Wall Chart from GeoBlogs

Gapminder World Health Chart

Going up on my wall today...

Gapminder World Health Chart by GeoBlogs on Scribd

Print this off on 18 sheets of A4 (or A3) and then reconstruct a large wallchart version of the chart to refer to when teaching.

Thanks to Matt Podbury for the steer here.

Shared under CC license (as are all Gapminder related documents and resources)

N2 is ready for your return...

I've been in school for a couple of days this week as well as the 2 INSET days, which were fairly full on. The new installation of storage lockers for students has freed up loads of extra space which used to be occupied by crates and boxes for bags and books.

From left to right, a few notes....

1. Departmental office (full to bursting with resources and books...will spend the next term trying to get that organised when I get a moment
2. New bookcase - note the copies of Factfulness for my Year 8 unit, which is taking shape 
3. Jen Monk's command word display - thanks :)
4. Jo Coles "..... like a geographer" wheel - thanks :)
5. Space for student work to go up in first few weeks
6. Simon Jones' posters - thanks :)
7. Sustainable Development Goals poster - a focus for some of my work this year (more to come on that)
8. Shower curtain, and whiteboards
9. Clock - "What time is it? Time for Geography"
10. Desk - exciting times, as I have moved this round to face the door and open up access to the shelves, which have all been cleared of five years accumulation of stuff. Bunting and Geography lights, plus light-box for word of the day etc.
11. HotBoard - this is an interactive display which is very easy to change and update by slotting work into the perspex folders - I inherited this from my colleague Claire, and a lot of other colleagues want one - but they can't have it :) - includes some of Richard Allaway's posters.
12. The Earth from space, as enlarged using the Rasterbator website (an old favourite) - a backdrop for some student work to go up in the first few weeks
13. Cupboards covered with one of my many flags

Click for bigger, or see it here.

Have a good year everyone!

New flag for N2

New flag just arrived to replace the Brazilian one that's flown behind my desk for the last year in N2.

Which place is this flag representing?

One for the classroom walls...

Richard and I developed this as part of some materials I created for the Geography all the Way website.
I'll probably make some posters from this for use in classrooms, or reminders for student folders.

It's a useful way to consider factors which relate to themes covered at GCSE and 'A' level in particular.
Work through the five elements of speed to consider the effectiveness or appropriateness of particular management methods etc. What implications do they have ?

SPEED through your work... and try to break the SPEED limits...