Nepal Earthquake

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32460972


A powerful earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter Scale has struck Nepal in an area between the capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara.  Sadly, loss of life and damage to the built environment is severe.

Snow day work for Mr Peacocke's classes

Year 9  Boys Follow the link below and watch the documentary on Hurricane Katrina.  Make some notes on the primary impacts (immediate) and secondary impacts (days, weeks, months, years after the event).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=974O47UmrII


Enjoy!

Snow Day Work for PJS classes

Year 7 classes complete the work set (the contour diagrams) if you have your books at home; otherwise use the link on this site to explore OS Map Zone (a bit of fun).

Year 9 class do some research in preparation for a class presentation on a cyclone of your own choice. It must be a cyclone and not a hurricane and therefore in the Indian Ocean region. Try to include details of how this event may differ in magnitude and effect from a hurricane in the Caribbean.

Snow Day Work for AHM classes

Once you've got bored of playing in the snow and on FIFA 15 you can do the following:

Year 13 - continue with the research on your two earthquake case-studies

Year 10 - complete the booklet started yesterday on Population and Resources

Year 11 - complete the work on looking at London - use the handout from Tuesday.

Tectonic Activity

Recent events you may have missed:

The Icelandic Volcano of Bárðarbunga has been active.

And a Scale 6.0 earthquake strikes San Francisco

What's in a place name?

The following website at the University of Nottingham gives an insight as to the origin of a settlement based on its name:

Key to English Place Names

Have a look and see what you can find?

Storm Surge hits UK

As the news tells us that the worse storm surge since 1953 is hitting the UK, watch this clip on the BBC to explain how a Storm Surge is formed.

Keep following what's happening at the BBC

Answers to the Open Day Competition

So here are the distances:

Cumbrian Lamb = 75.2

Sweet Potatoes (USA) = 4496.1

Sweet Carrots (South Africa) = 5847.7

Sugar Snap Peas (Peru) = 6244.7

Cauliflower (Lincolnshire) = 129.2

Making the grand total = 16 792.9 miles?

Is it worth it? Perhaps we should just buy British!

Open Events Competition

On the photograph above there are the ingredients for a roast dinner:

Cumbrian Lamb

Sweet Potatoes (USA)

Sweet Carrots (South Africa)

Sugar Snap Peas (Peru)

Cauliflower (Lincolnshire)

All you have to do is to estimate how far the ingredients have travelled! (In miles)

The answer will appear here tomorrow evening at 4pm

Pakistan hit again

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck south-west Pakistan, in a region where at least 400 people died in a quake earlier this week.

Read more on the BBC website

Barely half an hour after they were jolted by a major earthquake on Tuesday, people of the Pakistani coastal town of Gwadar had another shock when they saw a new island emerge in the sea, just over a kilometre from the shore. Click the picture for more details