This page is to keep you up to date with news of the Geography department as well as changes to the web site.

LAST NEWS!!!

This may be the last update of this version of the site. I am leaving Hampstead School for a new post as Advanced Skills Teacher at Courtfields School Somerset. Tim Bown is also leaving to be Assistant Head at Queens Park School. Congratulations to Charlotte Gold who takes over as Head of Geography.David Dixon and Jodi John join the department, and I wish them every success in the future!

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site, particularly Hampstead students, and friends and colleagues from far and wide who have made contact, shared ideas and provided me with so many opportunities to share and develop my own practice.

Noel Jenkins June 2003

LATEST NEWS! 16/3/03
Hampstead students did brilliantly at Bath MUN 2003
Year 7 students have continued the work on crime mapping after a visit from the police and Council. They are now working on identifying higher risk areas in Cricklewood, and hopefully a report will follow soon. Congratulations to Carolinre in Year 13 for achieving 100% in her AS retake!

RECENT NEWS! 8/2/03
Anne Arran gave a lecture on her adventures in Venezuela. Find out about the 6th forms' peace campaign here. Noel Jenkins gave a presentation to the Royal Geographical Society on 5/2/03 that featured work by students throughout the school.

19/1/03
There have been updates to the web links and the first of a new series of photo galleries starting with Death Valley. There are reports on recent MUN conferences and a new excel file for GCSE students with tips for data presentation.

15/10/02 A quality PowerPoint presentation has been added to the download section on coastal erosion, as well as an Excel exercise on drawing population pyramids. On the 2nd of October Fabiola Pilli and I presented a session at the O.S conference in Southampton on "teaching with GIS"

29/9/02 Charlotte Gold has joined us, and has already made a huge contribution to the department. Our GCSE results have risen once again! Recent Year 12 poems have been added. Teachers can download our crime lesson featuring Aegis 3 here. Since she wasn't arrested, here is Rowenna's new website . This web site was featured in the TES last week.

17/7/02 Crime conference
The quiz section of the site has finally been removed!. It has been replaced with a new section called "Events" Year 7 students Oliver and Gehan describe our recent conference on street crime, based on a series of lessons featuring Aegis 3. Other news is that a new teacher - the famous Charlotte Gold joins us next term!

25/6/02 Globalisation debate
Rowenna reports on a recent debate at King Alfred's School

6/5/02
Read the report about the 6th form field trip here. The TES featured us on the 26th April in a very positive article. The internet links have been revised.

16/3/02
Year 8 have written some poems about migration. Year 7 made some brilliant model river basins. Tim Bown and Noel Jenkins won the prestigous Moira Young Memorial golf tournament held at the end of term, fighting off a strong challenge from the DT department. An exercise using MapPoint is "under construction"

2/1/02
Year 12 present animations of weathering processes here. Our Year 8 population exercise is featured on the VTC / BECTa web site as an example of good ICT in practice.
Year 7 demonstrate flood prevention in our flume here and here.

31/8/01
From the BECTa web site "The judges liked this site because of the excellent showcase of work, range of content and imaginative work. The pupils used ICT creatively to inspire and stimulate learners, and were fully engaged in topics to give a learning experience. Judges also particularly noted the impressive animations, the teachers' commentary adding context to the work and the overall enthusiasm conveyed by the site. Sections commended included the "Un-fairtrade" section, where the pupils write content including debates, on-line voting, contributions, e-mail quizzes, and the Craig David volcano, which uses multimedia to great effect. One judge commented: "This site is both engaging and encouraging, making the audience want to discover further."

Congratulations to the GCSE and A level students! We had our best GCSE results in years. Geography was the best performing Humanities subject this year! The A level students also did well, and four students: Bowden Granville, Irfan Al-Rashid, David Adams and Imran Iqbal are going off to do Geography related degrees.

Our office and classrooms have been redecorated. We will have a new member of staff and with lots of exciting projects in mind, including a field trip to Morocco, it should be a fun year. We think that Geography is about understanding and changing our world for the better, and so we will be challenging and investigating with extra vigour this year ;)

9/6/01
Year 10 have been on the streets of London investigating disabled access. They will be publishing their work here. To access the confidential data you will need a password available to Hampstead students only by e mail Year 9 students have been interviewed by the BBC about the unfair trade web site. Congratulations to Ms Thomas on her new baby! We have other exciting news but unfortunately it has to remain a secret for now!

5/5/01
This month there have been additions to student's work.
Watch animations by year 9 and take your questions right to the Prime Minister with this example of a Year 10 homework

7/3/01
The research page has now been developed.
Read about the A level research from this year. More developments at too!

Try a simple GIS exercise using Excel here.

1/3/01
See the animations of river features and processes by Year 10 here We have won another award, this time from:

26/1/01
We were featured on the Mark Thomas Product on the 24/1/01.
There has been a lot of very positive feedback, for example:

"Just wanted to say Hi and congratulate all the kids their on a great performance last night. You were all a credit to your school and teacher with the thoughtful and intelligent questions that you posed. I was impressed! Keep up the good work and the pressure. Best wishes" R

Oliver Gatten writes about the Adidas debate at school on our new site

We have won an award. How nice!

14/1/01
Our most unprecedented event yet! Mark Thomas arranged a debate between the global affairs director of Adidas, union activists from Jakarta and Richard Howitt MEP. The debate took place at school and 40 students took part. At the end of the morning students were able to talk more informally with the visitors.

Last week saw the official launch of

Read all about the debate on the site soon.

3/12/00
We have been visited by Mark Thomas of Channel 4 who is making a program about conditions in clothing factories in Indonesia. Year 9 students were able to ask questions of the senior Adidas representative in charge of global marketing. Our new website www.unfairtrade.co.uk is almost ready to launch. You can see the work in progress now. There's a new addition to the quiz page; "Guess where Gemma's shirt came from?"

15/10/00
Some changes to the home page! Did you notice that the web ring links have been removed? We are replacing it with a changing selection of topical web sites. This month, compare information from the Nestle site regarding the production of coffee, with the views of the Fair Trade organisation. Look at Rebecca Cook's persuasive writing here. Our latest and most subversive project to date is under way. We have registered the domain name unfair trade .co.uk. Plans will be revealed in due course!

16/9/00
Congratulations to all the students who contributed to our excellent exam results this year! Particular mention must be made of the twelve Year 10 students who passed GCSE a year early, having taken the subject as an after-school activity! Their results included 7 A grades (two of them at A*) We were delighted with the performance of the Year 11 GCSE students, and at A level, almost all students did as well as, or better in Geography than their other subjects. We are especially proud of Francesca Greene who is now off to Liverpool University to study Geography.

16/7/00
We have a new member of department to replace Moira Young who is retiring after 26 years of Geography teaching at Hampstead School. Nicola Thomas joins us in September.
The internet links pages have been revised and updated. This Geography Life has also been extended; please contribute to this new idea!

20/6/00
There has been a major update to the information for parents and students. Information about the new KS3 and AS level course is now available. There have been some additions to student's work too. The bookshop has been extensively revised. Why not be the first to use it!

21/5/00
We have returned from a Year 12 field trip to Mid Wales and Liverpool. The details of the trip will be available soon!

6/5/00
It's the start of a new term! Two great new exercises have been added to the Lessons Page. Try Virtual River to learn how to measure river discharge. This is the best interactive web site I've yet seen! There is a new Year 10 investigation into the events at Bhopal as well.
Tom Wills has added a great article about the visit to Speedwell Cavern .
I am experimenting with a new feature "Geography and Lifestyle". Have a look at the rock climbing pages!
The counter for the home page of our site has recorded 7174 visits including hits from these domains:

AUSTRALIA (.AU) 24    ITALY (.IT) 8    JAPAN (.JP) 7    SINGAPORE (.SG) 6    CANADA (.CA) 5    NETHERLANDS (.NL) 4    GERMANY (.DE) 3    SWEDEN (.SE) 3    THAILAND (.TH) 3    CHILE (.CL) 3    IRELAND (.IE) 2    ISRAEL (.IL) 2   AUSTRIA (.AT) 2    FAROE ISLANDS (.FO) 1    FINLAND (.FI) 1 )    FRANCE (.FR) 1    NORWAY (.NO) 1      US Government (.GOV) 1    GREECE (.GR) 1    BELGIUM (.BE) 1    TURKEY (.TR) 1    ESTONIA (.EE) 1

15/4/00
We are pleased that quite a lot of money has been raised this term for charity. A lunch time collection resulted in £152.00 being sent to the Mozambique flood appeal. We also raised £342.00 in a collection at the end of term assembly that has been given to Oxfam for famine relief in the Horn of Africa. We are particularly impressed by the students from 8.1 who took part in a 24hr fast, raising nearly £200!

20/3/00
Would you like a sneak preview of the field trip pictures?? This part of the site is unfinished. We are going to add a teaching unit based on these pictures in due course.

We are currently working on a field trip to Kenya that will involve a live broadcast by satellite to other schools. The students will be the presenters. It's an idea that even beats "Rainforest in a stock cupboard". We are looking for sponsorship so any ideas are welcome!

13/3/00
We are back from our Geography by Mountain Bike field trip. The full story will emerge soon!

10/3/00
Our web site is becoming more widely known, and other sites are linking to us including CAFOD, and GeoNet who describe us as "very impressive" A number of Geography advisors and inspectors have also written with praise for the site!
New links have been added to the Lessons page to help Year 9 with their research homework on Nike

16/2/00
We have added a new on line assignment on the topic of population.This exercise aims to extend your spreadsheet skills, as well as introducing population pryamids

30 / 1 / 00
A major computer crash last week so no updates!!

We are off caving after the Ofsted inspection week. Students will be exploring Peak Cavern. This site has some pictures:Peak District Caving

12 / 1 / 00
The Internet links section has been updated and categorized under more headings to make it easier to use.
A quiz and gap-fill exercise about Mount St Helens has been added together with an online crossword about refugees.
I made a bird and a mouse out of dirt in my lesson on desertification this week!

.6/1/00
We are working on an online lesson that will teach you how to analyse population data. The first lesson using Excel is ready. Why not be the first to test it and find the mistakes!
Did you notice the revised home page?
The Key Stage Three information for parents has been updated.

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