Year 7 - Welcome to the blog

To help you with you map work skills take a look at this website.

There are bits of advice, practice questions and games all aimed at improving your map skills.

Click on this link: Map Zone

The Geography of Food Competition - Answer

The ingredients travelled:
Welsh Lamb - 152.26km
Pembrokeshire Potatoes - 281.06km
Scottish Broccoli - 288.21km
Lincolnshire Carrots - 110.66km
Kenyan Peas - 7071.24km
Peruvian Mangetout - 9489.69
Lincolnshire Oxo Cubes (for gravy) - 112.66

The roast dinner travelled a total distance of: 17505.78km
How close did you get?


From a geographical perspective what are the consequences of this?
Perhaps we should look for this symbol from now on?!

A little competition for open day!

Here are the ingredients for a traditional roast dinner:
Welsh Lamb
Pembrokeshire Potatoes
Scottish Broccoli
Lincolnshire Carrots
Kenyan Peas
Peruvian Mangetout
Lincolnshire Oxo Cubes (for gravy)

All you have to do is to estimate how far the ingredients have travelled! (In kilometres)
Send your estimates to us via the comment link.
There will be prizes for those of you who get close.

Help and Have Fun

Have a bit of fun and help supply rice to people who really need it by clicking on Free Rice.

Choose your subject (Geography I hope!) but you can also do Art, Maths, Chemistry, Languages or English. For each question you get right 10 grains of rice are donated via the UN world food programme.

For more information about this click this link.

Thanks to Jacob Roberts for showing me this site.

Track Santa's progress

Some of you may have heard about, or even seen the Norad site that allows you to track Santa's progress.

Well it has lots more besides - Click the image above to take you to the website.

Carbon Footprint Calculator

How environmentally friendly are you?
Click on the image above to see calculate your carbon footprint.

Geo Challenge

For those of you with a Facebook account why not spend some time playing this - it's good fun.

Shakeout Day

On the 13th November over 5 million people in California will take part in the largest earthquake drill ever held.

Click this video link to show you the scenerio:



For more details follow this link to The Great Southern California Shakeout site.

How do you think you would cope in a 7.8 Earthquake? Why not have a go at the Beat the Earthquake Game.

Half term - have a rest!

If you get bored or if you are missing your Geography lessons have a go at the Google Maps Quiz.

Click this link - Google Maps Quiz