Congratulations to Lily Pigott-Denyer (8LC), the proud winner of the KS3 Jack Petchey Award!

In the autumn term, Joe Tuner was the Jack Petchey winner for Prothero as someone who had made a significant contribution to the House. 

This term, a group of our outstanding Year 8 students took part in University College London’s Ocean Health Challenge 2024, a prestigious national engineering design competition for secondary school and college students aged 11-18.

Year 8 geographers have been very busy showcasing their creativity and research skills by creating projects on one of the following rivers: Nile, Colorado, Yangtze or the Ganges.  Whilst there was so much knock-out work, each teacher selected 2/3 projects from their classes.

The Geography Department

Click on the link here to see the amazing work created by our Year 8 geographers!

Our Year 8 students recently handed in their end of term ‘river projects’ where they were tasked to hand in a creative and geographical project on 1 of 4 rivers: Colorado, Ganges, Yangtze and the Nile.  Our classes blew us away, and we have struggled to pick the top projects, but each teacher has managed to handpick their 2 stand out projects…see below the winners from each class!

Miss Ashman has chosen Alex Stanchev who produced a stunningly unique whilst incredibly professional looking board game on the river Yangtze!

Whilst Karan Abrol produced a professional standard and highly geographical leaflet on the River Ganges!

Astarti Manalakou created a stand-out project that had bamboo boats sailing on the River Nile; super Geographical too!

Subhan Saeed created a highly professional project on the Yangtze which was super informative as well as visually appealing - love the use of dragons!

Nimrat Matthau used mixed media to make her front cover on the Ganges stand out from the rest.

Adi Vedamuthu created a huge book which was professionally presented and was also crammed full of geography.

Mrs Belton-Owen’s Groups

Angela Long - a beautifully presented booklet that included amazing hand drawn diagrams and detailed written notes.

Maddison Lopez- I really loved the creativity used here to show the River Nile, from source to mouth. Maddison also included a lot of detail in each of her written sections that showed the effort and time that she had put into this assessment.

Reuben Sackey-James -   I was really impressed with the effort and presentation of this work. All the key success criteria have been completed in good detail.

Last week the Geography department took the whole of Year 9 out to explore, enjoy and be captivated by the awe and wonder of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. This was an excellent finale to our topic of World Biomes and allowed students to explore vegetation and ecosystems from around the world.  We had beautiful autumn weather which set the perfect scene as our native deciduous woodland trees and vegetation were turning red and golden. Students visited a range of top attractions in the garden including the tree top walk, Palm House, Temperate House, The Hive and the students favourite the Princess of Wales Conservatory. This greenhouse included desert biomes, tropical rainforest and ferns, carnivorous plants and beautiful orchids.

The pictures here show the delights of Kew in all of its glory. The Hive is an incredible art structure that is designed as a bee hive would be and being inside you hear the noise of bees buzzing and the lights flashing representing how the bees communicate. The image shows what the inside of The Hive looks like inside.

Year 9 groups outside The Palm House before we entered the humid rainforests that span the equator. It was not long before coats were taken off as the heat inside helped to create a real experience. Inside the drips off the leaves help to create the damp jungle conditions that you would experience in the tropical rainforest. Students had to find examples of fruit, medicinal plants and drip tip leaves!

The treetop walkway was another highlight of the trip. Where students experienced the top of the trees from 18m up and could look out across the treetops and west London.

Click here to view the Kew Gardens field trip album.

The Geography Department