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.

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.  

Year 8 Programme of Study

In Year 8 you will focus on what connects us to other places and people and how places and people interact.  You will look at how people make decisions about their lives, how they use resources and what we think other people are like and the impact these decisions have on the world around us. you will do this by studying the topics below:

1) What makes places dangerous?

2) How many people is too many people?

3) How does your city grow?

4) Is it me or is it hot in here?

5) Why doesn't the UK have a rainforest?

6) Health, Wealth & Happiness: Global differences in life and death.