This is the video I used as a starter with groups this week, courtesy of David Rayner...
While it's showing, ask people to think "Where would I JUMP to...."
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Congratulations to Mark !
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Mark nearing the end of his journey...

We have mentioned his trip in quite a few lessons this year.
Also a good article in this week's Sunday Times
The opening paragraph gives a good flavour for the effort that Mark has put in:
Imagine getting up tomorrow, climbing bleary-eyed onto your bike and cycling from Bath to London; or Birmingham to Liverpool; or Belfast to Dublin. Then imagine doing it again the next day. And the next day and the day after that. For six months.
Now picture doing the same thing, but in the mountains of the Indus Valley, the torrential rain of Thailand and the mind-melting heat of the Australian outback. Throw in a few nights in a police cell in Pakistan, a collision with a moped in India and a mugging in a Louisiana crack house, and you’ll have some idea of what it takes to cycle around the world in record-breaking time.
Val Vannet has continued to blog the journey daily, apart from a short Christmas break, and the next few days, where I will track Mark's progress through France, before Val brings him into the capital...In her Geography department, Val has used a map which has a series of pins. These started out as yellow and have slowly been turning red...
There are now just 2 yellow pins remaining...

Log on to the blog for the final few days and you'll be able to see the last part of the journey...
Monday, 11 February 2008
Wind Farms

They have a very useful website which features a whole range of resources. There is a time lapse video showing the construction of one of their installations.
I particularly liked the interactive map of their installations, and also the PDF downloads of the plans, for example the wind turbines that they are putting into Manchester City's football ground. These include photomontages and maps showing how the turbines will look once they are in place.
Swaffham is also KINGDOM COUNTRY after the Sunday evening ITV series starring Stephen Fry. Two of the students I teach featured in a recent episode as they were in a local cricket team which hosted filming of an episode.

Here is a Kingdom map I found on the VISIT NORFOLK website.

Sunday, 3 February 2008
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