Icons of England

Year 5 and 6 Explorers (in the weekly activities slot) are starting the summer term of exploration with a look at Great Britain (as we run up to the Queen's 90th Birthday). Today, I went through 100 icons of England as voted for in a web poll some time ago (I used it as part of my Pilot GCSE unit on the representation of places). There are also connections to be made with this year's title for the 'Young Geographer of the Year' competition, which looks at changes in Britain (full details should appear in the next week or so)

Students were asked to identify the icons they'd heard of from the list, and those they hadn't. I did a quick whistle-stop tour of all those they hadn't... and they were then asked to identify their chosen Top 10. This is the collation of the whole group's choices.

We will be researching these next week, to produce a visual collage representing Britain, and then focussing on Ely...

Made with Tagxedo.

Cold as...

Year 8s have been creating Tagxedo / Wordle clouds on the theme of 'cold'...
Here's Joshua's...

Down Under...

Australia is a particularly risky place.

It's almost as if the place is set up to kill its inhabitants or at least to inconvenience them. The hazards are climatic, meteorological, biological and from other sources... Even the sun beats down through a thinning layer of Ozone and cutting the grass might lead to a spider bite...

Year 9 have been investigating the Risky Place that is Australia and visualising the risks in some Word Clouds, made with the Tagxedo website, which provides the option to turn the clouds into shapes.

Excellent work by Charles, Oliver and Natalia.

More to come in the next few days...