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Department to the coast in the current situation! much about the world and should feel
In addition, Mrs Hughes set a light- very proud of themselves.
marks ‘Geo Day’ hearted quiz on Firefly for S5 and S6, The Geography Department
which asked pupils to match the teacher
with work experiences in locations
The SQA Geography exams would have including the Australian outback, Tanzania,
taken place on Tuesday, April 28. To mark Svalbard, New Zealand and Antarctica.
this, the Geography Department ran a The new S6 will return to the Geography
photo competition on Facebook, Twitter Department with an insight into the
and Instagram, asking pupils to send adventures their teachers have had!
in geographical photos from their local Thank you to all our geographers who
area while taking their daily exercise. We worked so hard this year. Despite not
received lots of great entries, including sitting the course exam, they learned so Stella Kosaniuk Innes (S6) Millie Hean (S6)
Laurie Adams’ dog sitting by a river,
beautiful blossom from Millie Hean, Tara
Verden-Anderson’s view from Queen’s
Drive and the stunning front gates of
Heriot’s from Jeremy Saville.
The entries were judged during an online
Zoom meeting of Team Geography and
Stella Kosaniuk Innes’s entry of waves
meeting a headland and wave-cut
platform was selected. The Geography Alexandra Burns-Cox (S3) finds a way to do
Department are clearly missing fieldtrips Jeremy Saville (S6) geography without leaving her home

Challenge sheets

test geographers

The Geography Department launched
‘geography challenge’ sheets, sending
these to pupils in S1 to S3 and
promoting them more widely on
Twitter and Instagram. The sheets
outlined optional extras Herioters
could do to improve their geographical
knowledge and understanding while at
home.
Pupils sent comments about watching
geography-related programmes
(Race Across the World was very
popular!) and their work on various
tasks, including creating fact files for Principal, we
different countries and taking photos
of the geography from their window. shrunk the
One pupil even challenged herself to
watch the entire Planet Earth I series, Geography
and when she finished, she watched
Planet Earth II! Department

Unable to meet face-to-face, the
Geography Department remodelled
themselves as Lego figures. Here,
Mr Ross takes his dog for a walk, Mr
Ogilvie correctly identifies a plant,
Mr Watson sharpens the colouring
pencils, and the department embark
on a virtual field trip.

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