Getting ready for remote teaching again...

We hope all King's Ely Geographers had a great Christmas and a good start to the New Year: 2021. 

We will be teaching remotely in KS3 for the next couple of weeks at least it seems.

Teachers will be in touch with regards to work, which will be set via Firefly and/or OneNote. 

There will be live lessons and/or pre-recorded Loom/PPT with voiceover videos with tasks, depending on the group and teacher and timing. Invitations to live lessons will come via TEAMS and your Outlook school e-mail address. Remember that you have access to all the relevant software via your school account, and most of you will have this already set up from last academic year.

Check the Geography department's home page on Firefly where you will find the work for Year 7 and 8 in particular. Click the Lent Term 2021 button to go to the page with the work.

We look forward to seeing you again in person when the levels of infection and pressure on the NHS reduce a little from the current rates. In the meantime, stay safe.

We will also be tweeting ideas to help you on our Twitter feed @KingsElyGeog

Also remember that we have our Lockdown Learning sheet of ideas if you fancy doing something away from the screen. We sent this out in March 2020, but it's equally relevant now if you want to do something to take you out into the fresh air, and take your mind off the situation.

Offline Activities by GeoBlogs on Scribd

Technology in Geography at King's Ely

Just caught up with a piece on Technology in Education which was published in the Spring 2018 issue of Public Schools Magazine. I sent in some information on how we use technology in the Geography department at King's Ely, and heard no more for a few months, but we were featured in the final article.
We feature on pp.42-3 if you want to read it online here. 
My ICT colleague Mr Everest is featured earlier in the article too.

King's Ely Geography Twitter account now open...

King's Ely students (or potentially their parents) are now welcome to follow the new Twitter account which has been set up by the department.

This is a protected account.

Only those associated with King's Ely will be able to follow and see the tweets, which will be news items and resources of interest to the curriculum and exam specifications which the department teaches. All requests to follow the account will be moderated by departmental staff. The account will not be used to share any information that might identify any individual student, and follows the school protocols for the use of social media.

This will be another way of sharing useful information relevant to particular Year groups (identified by hashtags such as #year7) or projects the school takes part in.

Geography Ambassadors will also be helping to suggest tweets.