The members of Geography Society did a brilliant job recently in organising and running a Year 7 Inter-From Orienteering Competition. They made the maps, control cards, went out and set out the course and ran the timing and scoring. A massive well done to all involved.

A further well done to the competitors that came along and represented their form groups. It was not the nicest of day, so resilience was needed to keep going! All competitors got a prize, but the overall winners were Alara and Fatima, representing 7G. They received a compass…what else?!

Mr Bowles,

Curriculum Leader for Geography

Some students in Year 8 recently had a go at the Santa Rosa Island Mystery Map challenge. They had to apply their geographical skills involving OS maps, scale and distance to produce a map of Santa Rosa Island using a story to help them. The students worked really hard and produced fantastic, accurate maps of the Island. Well done to Milana for producing the closest map to the original! (Miss Greaves)

Mr Bowles, Curriculum Leader for Geography

Another bumper year for models with the Humanities corridor rammed full of amazing entries. We had Lego, cardboard, modelling clay, virtual volcanoes and many more interesting mediums. The impression we got when looking at the models this year was the very high Geographical content – lots of key vocabulary and explanations to go with the models. Well done to everyone that submitted a project – we loved them!

Five entries in particular really stood out and as such have been awarded prizes; Vritika S, Celina D-A & Courtney F, Naomi S and Saffiya M – Well done. Prizes will be given out in Awards Assembly.

Mr Bowles, Curriclum Leader for Geography

Year 10 have been out and about “into the field” a couple of times in quick succession recently. Firstly, the Geographers assembled on Fishergate at 9:20am on Tuesday 25^th June, many with Starbucks in hand, ready to test if Preston follows the Burgess Model of Urban Land Use. This involved moving outwards from the city centre to the edge of Preston to perform various test to collect data and try to ascertain if the buildings, traffic and environment quality changed as hypothesised. The cohort showed all the resilience we expected from a group of Geographers and the experience will put them in excellent stead for answering questions on Paper 3 exam next summer; this is always a real strength for Penwortham Girls’, and the attitude and commitment shown by these students on the days suggest next year will be no different.

On Thursday 11^th July the same cohort of Geographers took off from school once again, this time to expereince some of the wooded areas in the local area. Although dry the conditions under foot were challenging due to all the recent rain, but once again the resiliance shown was improessive. The Geogrphers also deomonstrated excellent recall of the content on the Deciduous Woodland Ecosystem topic – well done everyone!

Mr Bowles

Curriculum Leader for Geography