The Forgotten Celery

Will be using this for our Food unit in the new academic year... a nice starter... and stimulus to write a story of your own...

Historical documents in Geography

Miss Furness passed this amazing resource (and another) to us in the Geography department yesterday. It's an original contemporary copy from 1913 of the Daily Mirror and records Scott's death and the discovery of his body.

The Ice Man

New arrival in the department ahead of the Literacy Festival....

You can see how Matt Podbury has made use of this at his website.
Year 7s will be getting a go at reading this in a few weeks time.

Could you sell these houses ?

Year 9 were challenged to write a description that could have been produced by an estate agent...

Falldown and Panic Estate Agents by GeoBlogs

KEJ Reading Festival

The week of the 14th of October is the Reading festival. Literacy will be featured in all lessons with a focus on books which support the curriculum.
We are going to be looking at Polar literature and adventure in Year 7 and 8, and books on cities in Year 9.
The Geography department will also be having an after-school event with author Alan Parkinson, who also happens to teach at King's Ely, and also happens to be me...
Here's the poster for the event. Ask me for more details...