Mr Taylor Geog 🌍

Geography, Humanities & English Teacher currently teaching Primary in New Zealand 🇳🇿🌍Geography BSc Graduate @GIDChester and PGDE Geography Graduate @LJMU

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

Yesterday I had the privilege of watching my grade 6 homeroom classes graduate primary school. 📚

I am proud of both classes achievements this year.✨

It has been an honour to be their homeroom teacher and it was lovely to share their special day with them! 🎓

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

It was a pleasure to celebrate Loy Krathong with the children & my Thai colleagues in creating Krathong’s (floats made from banana leaves & flowers) & releasing them into the lake. The boats take all our bad luck with them, whilst also paying respects to the water spirits🇹🇭🕯️💐

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

Happy to announce that a week today I will be starting my new position as an English teacher at Anuban Phayao School in Thailand! Excited and absolutely terrified at the same time! 🇹🇭👨‍🏫

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

A cold, wet but definitely not miserable residential trip to Magilligan for our AS Geographers to complete their sand dune fieldwork study 🏝️🌍🌧️

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

At the start of December I set out on a challenge of running 2.5 miles every day for @mndassoc 31 days later and 80 miles later I’ve completed that challenge and raised £300 in the process! If anyone would like to donate I have linked the page below 🏃‍♂️❤️

https://t.co/QrQzuPtbdZ

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

First 4 days of running 2.5 miles every day in December for @mndassoc ✅ please donate and RT if possible. All donations go to a great cause ❤️

https://t.co/QrQzuPtbdZ

[Sky News @SkyNews]

The Sicilian volcano Mount Etna has sent huge jets of lava into the night sky after erupting overnight.

Scientists say the volcanic discharge has reached 4,500m (14,763ft) above sea level 🌋 https://t.co/R35km5fHbZ

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

During the month of December I will be running 2.5 miles every day for the MND Association. 🏃‍♂️

I know times are tough and it’s the lead up to Christmas but any donations/retweets would be greatly appreciated and will be going to a fantastic charity.

https://t.co/QrQzuPtbdZ

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

This video is way upstream of Brechin, and shows a minor tributary of the River South Esk. And this is *before* the red warning kicks in. Expect to wake up to unheard-of scenes tomorrow. Swept-away bridges and severe flooding in Angus for sure.

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

Yesterday our Year 13 and 14 Travel and Tourism groups enjoyed the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism Roadshow event @Seagoehotel

Students had the chance to use VR headsets, make their own ice cream and have a go at making mocktails! #TourismNI #SpringboardUK

[NASUWT N. Ireland @NASUWT_NI]

NITC recognise that our members are resolute and determined to secure a fair pay settlement, which both properly reflects their value and also takes account of the soaring cost of living.
#PayParityInEducation #TradeUnionThursday #InvestInEducation

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

@Collins_R_C @ChesterYouthCAN @GreenExpoUK @uochester This was fab last year! Hope it goes just as well this year! 🌎

[National Education Union @NEUnion]

This is what change looks like #SaveOurSchools

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

@logdog3000 Sorry just seen this! Hope you guys are all good? Looks like he needs some attention and TLC! I’m counting on you to keep him alive Logan! 🌱🌍

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

Best of luck to all year 11 students picking up their results today! Be proud of everything you achieve 🎉🥳#GCSEResultsDay

[Sir William Stanier @SWS_School]

Sending our best wishes and congratulations to students and their families on #GCSEresultsday
Students can pick up their results from 9am at school today. See you soon.

[Chris Pearson @Chris_G_Pearson]

This summer is going to be tough for a lot of families, please #RT it may help someone

[Mr Taylor Geog 🌍 @GeogTaylor]

Really looking forward to be taking a group of our wonderful year 9’s to this fantastic event tomorrow! 🌍🎓 @SWS_School @ChesterYouthCAN

[Sir William Stanier @SWS_School]

Our first RE Martin Luther King Jr rewards badges were handed out to students who have submitted a piece explaining how they have shown integrity. In Y7 they were awarded to Jasmine, Jess & Lily; in Y8 Sam, Imogen & Alfie; in Y9 to Hayley and in Y10 to Mia #culture