Reading for Year 12

This is important reading.

It's the introduction to a forthcoming publication on the ageing of the world's population, and provides a useful narrative on the opportunities and threats posed by this change in the global demographic.

Weapons of Reason - the Arctic

This is a rather wonderful magazine now out of print. I used some sections with Year 8 for the Arctic work, and we will carry on with this next year...

Northern Sea Route

We explored the growing use of the Northern Sea Route at the end of the term, using a range of resources. There was an article from 2013 (which we used at the time) describing the route of the Yong Sheng.
A new page has been placed on Firefly to hold the other resources relating to this new route for freight to travel from Chinese factories to the European markets.
Here's a short film on some of the goods that may be heading here via the Northern Sea Route in future years...


We'll also be using some of the materials from an excellent magazine published by Weapons of Reason which I got before the Christmas break, and have managed to read some of in the last few weeks.