Volcano Competition: And the winner is....

Well done to all the Year 8 students that entered the competition, it was extremely difficult to decide on a winner as there were so many fantastic entries.  But here are the final results below:

Overall Competition Winner: Emma Grainger 8J

• Most realistic volcano winner: Amina Malik 8M
• Most realistic volcano runner-up: Ryan Nichols 8P
• Most educational volcano winner: Aleksandra Pudlo 8M
• Most educational volcano runner-up: Aqeel Bhatti 8Q
• Best eruption winner: Amir Sagedhi 8M
• Best eruption runner-up: Reece Harrison 8P

Due to the high standard of entries the following students have been awarded Highly Commended for their volcanoes:
- John-Joesph Mack 8P                                              - Patricia Marquina 8P
- Muaad Shawesh 8P                                                  - Athavan Skandakumar 8P
- Gaurav Vaseer 8P                                                    - Zoraiz Butt 8J
- Jaivir Gupta 8J                                                          - Will Robinson 8J
- Abdullah Salim 8J                                                     - Aaron Chandi 8S
- Maria Ladj 8S                                                          - Hannah Phillips 8S
- Gautam Sharma 8S                                                  - Tanya Sharma 8M
- Joesph Woodward 8M                                            - Makaranda Jayasinghe-Arachchige 8Q
- Nayan Kad 8Q                                                        - Saleh Soomro 8Q

Some Eruptions

7 Billion

The world's population is nearing 7 billion, watch the clip below to see some of the issues this causes.

Haiti and Japan Earthquakes

Haiti and Japan have both recently experienced earthquakes, here is a useful presentation created by Vrinda Badiala Silva 10J.  Have a look to remind you of what happened.




Thank you Vrinda!

Volcano world!!

Thanks for all the entries to the model competition.  You can see some of the entries below.  The final results will be announced on Friday 16th September.  

Young Geographer of the Year Competition

Attention Geographers!  Now is your chance to show off your geography talent by entering this years Young Geographer of the Year competition.  To enter all you need to do is answer the following question:

                 'What should every good geographer understand?'

Make sure you visit the RGS website (http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Young+Geographer+2011.htm) to find the entry requirements for your age category.

The closing date for entries is 7th October 2011, so get started.

Good Luck!!!