Year 7 homework was the Tropical Rainforest. Super proud of our pupil’s efforts

The team have been busy getting ready for the open evening. Here is our food on a plate display inspired by our year 7 topic

Fieldwork issue-not a single public toilet open anywhere and apparently having a wild wee is no longer allowed🙄135 kids unused to holding their bladder for more than 10 minutes. If anyone has fieldwork suggestions with Loos within 20 miles of Luton please share.

Fieldwork for Year 11 geographers in Luton today. Followed the River Lea from source down. Kids were a bit surprised to find no water at the source😂😂 The joys of chalk streams

Glacial landscape treats in Poland

Good job their mums a geographer and taught them map skills😂

This is me, stuck in an unbelievably humid classroom with 3 1/2 days until the end of term. Why are kids so sticky? #teaching

Just listening to two rather pretentious people having a conversation worthy of Margot-The Good Life. Interesting that the phrase “spaghetti meatballs” cannot be made to sound posh no matter how hard you try. Albondigas is the way forward.

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Scouting possibilities for Duke of Edinburgh walks. Great to meet the Dof E team for Challney Girlsout with their silver group

My youngest in Denmark has finally discovered Etsy. I am loving my birthday presents😁

Summer days walking home from a bank holiday brunch. Bliss

Love a Bob Dylan cover #the Zimmermans

BBC morning weather and now new series of Family Guy off the listenable/ watchable list. AI has its used, but not in creating content that a human can relate to#AI # writing

I think one of the most important pieces I can bring over from Twitter to start is a collection of assessment resources that everyone is allowed to copy and use, if it's helpful. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Mass movement at Lulworth Cove today. So lucky with the weather for our walk to Durdle Door and back.

Exploring Suffolk. Fabulous beach huts at Southwold and smoked fish in Aldeburgh

Spring popping it’s head out in the woods to say hello.

Can you smell the spring garden?

In a blink of an eye, or rather a twenty minute car journey and I arrive in what appears to be France. What the money of the Rothschild’s can build.

Waiting for bluebells

Spring has sprung and I could almost be in Yorkshire☺️

I think this is one of the biggest sweet chestnut trees I have ever seen. Thank you Dom for giving it some perspective (and he’s not small!)

Beautiful and crystal clear chalk stream on my walk today.

I’ve heard of a reduced service, but this is ridiculous #trains

Yay the catkins are out. Spring is on its way.

Time to embrace the seasons and get a lung full of Arctic air🥶 #walking

Deleted X, that feels better.

We’ve just published the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet (called Bedmap3), and we learnt some pretty cool facts about Antarctica that you can use to impress your pals. Ready? Graphic: Hamish Pritchard et al

“Among them are Brazilian termites, which have built high mounds connected by tunnels that cover an area larger than Iceland.” Many animal 'geomorphs' under threat, study warns phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/phys.org...

Watch the full film up on YouTube ⬇️

In 2025, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of IFPRI. To mark this milestone, throughout this year, we will be sharing select IFPRI innovations that supported evolving food systems. Today, we feature the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) 🌍

A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected https://go.nature.com/4bTB9aD

428.11 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 12-Mar-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

We were delighted to be at @aardmananimations.bsky.social today to support the launch of #DarcysTale, a film made in collaboration with Project Groundwater and which highlights the impact of groundwater flooding. See the full film here: www.letstalkgroundwaterflooding.org

British Science Week starts tomorrow! 🥳 Are you ready to celebrate STEM in the school grounds? Explore the benefits of taking science outdoors and discover free activities to try over the course of the week, handpicked especially for the #BSW25 theme 👇 ltl.org.uk/news/stem-ou...

Mr. Conway, Esq., I believe you'll appreciate this powerful 8 min speech by French senator Claude Malheuret. From yesterday. "We are fighting against a dictator backed by a traitor" www.youtube.com/watch?v=j51H...

Nature reclaims what humans abandon: from forests flourishing in Chernobyl to the collapse cities.  This 📖 explores how ecosystems adapt, recover, and reshape our world - challenging what we think about decay, resilience & recovery tipping points #geographyteacher tinyurl.com/yd7dtprv

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... gd for a local regeneration case study

Here’s a good look at this: buff.ly/qX1pW5d

Seems that as Head of Geography I have inherited this😱 This being one small corner of a plot big enough to feed the whole of Luton, plus a massive pond. All suggestions, tips for planting and free stuff 🙏 welcome.

Mine copper without destroying the planet? London-based project gives scientists hope

Did you know a hectare of #seagrass will trap carbon up to 35% quicker than a hectare of rainforest?🤔 David Smyth, marine rewilding lead at Highlands Rewilding, explores how this habitat supports a high level of biodiversity, acts as a coastal buffer for storms, and can sequester carbon quickly.

A new study has solved a mystery about how the orbital cycles drive the current cycle of glaciations and interglacials. Orbital forcing has been known for over 100 years, but now the precise pattern has been identified. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #iceage #glaciation #interglacial #emissions

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021... Credit to Russia they played a long game with Brexit and Trump. New world order with i suspect some surprising alliances on the way

Russia coming back to win the Cold War in 2025 after the ESPN win probability chart said the USA had a 99.999999999% chance of victory

‘Green roofs deliver for biodiversity’: how Basel put nature on top