Year 8 go to Hollywood!

...or at least become film makers in Geography at the moment.

Mr Burdett's groups have been making movies using Windows Movie Maker, all about the Mozambique floods in February and March 2000. At the moment we are still uploading them to the internet, and a link will be posted here as soon as that is complete.

In the meantime, if you want to have a go at making your own movie, you can follow some step by step instructions that are available for download at mrburdett.4shared.com - look in the 'Year 8 movies and instructions' folder for the document. It might be a bit fiddly to start with, but you'll soon get the hang of it - Year 8 certainly did! (NB. Most computers already have Movie Maker but it doesn't appear in the programme file menu. To make it work on your computer at home, go to 'Start' in the bottom left corner of the screen, then click 'Search' and type in 'Movie Maker' - normally you will then get a window with the Movie Maker icon in it, and you just double click to open it up.)

Have fun!

More resources for download

Parents and visiting teachers can now see even more of what their child is studying in Geography at Cromwell. We are gradually placing more and more self-made resources onto to the 4shared site - mrburdett.4shared.com

New additions include lesson notes, past exam model answers, and PowerPoints about the 2007 Children's Map of the World Competition, the current Mozambique floods and how to build your very own Brazilian shanty town.

As always if you have any concerns or comments, contact us directly at school or via cromgeogNOSPAM@hotmail.co.uk (remember to remove 'NOSPAM' from the address).

cromgeoggcse to continue

A reminder to all Year 11 and Year 10 Geography students that cromgeoggcse.blogspot.com is there for your benefit.

The trial period for this site aimed to help absent students keep up to date. The trial has been very successful and we will keep it running for the next term, to the end of the 'People and Place' topic you have recently started.

The information refers directly to what was covered in Mr Burdett's Year 11 lesson but will be useful to any student studying people and the issues surrounding where they live.

Parents can also keep up to date with the homework issued for Mr Burdett's group which is posted on the site over the weekend following it being set.

Add cromgeoggcse to your favourites now!

About Geography at Cromwell

At Cromwell, Geography is taught to every year group. In Years 7, 8 and 9 it is compulsory for all students. At GCSE, approximately 1/3rd of a typical year group will opt to continue studying with us, and we are one of the founding subjects of the brand new sixth form in Years 12 and 13.

There are several exciting developments in Geography at the moment:

• We are one of the subjects (along with English and RE) selected to be part of the Specialist Status bid that will bring better learning opportunities to all students in Cromwell
• All Geography classes are taught in the brand new, purpose built Humanities block
• Geography has two of the school's interactive whiteboards
• Our GCSE and AS level results have made us proud for yet another year - 77.7% of our GCSE intake achieved A*-C in 2006

We hope you will continue to visit this page to get more information as the blog develops.