HCHS Geography

The official account of the Geography Department at Hanley Castle High School. Keeping you updated with trips, lessons and events! #geographyteacher

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Welcome to our new twitter account! Circumstances are a little different compared to the start of the year. Here is a picture from our fieldwork at Slapton Sands in January - it looks deceptively warm! #NewProfilePic #geography #geographyteacher #devon #fieldwork #gcsegeography

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Our year 7’s have had a fantastic time visiting Diglis Fish Pass 🐟 and exploring Worcester city centre this week 🗺️ A massive thank you to the volunteers at the @CanalRiverTrust for the tours and activities!☀️@SevernUnlocked @HanleyCastle #geography #fieldtrip #worcester

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Human fieldwork day! Two groups visited Hartlebury to investigate the impacts of counter-urbanisation. They completed environmental quality surveys, traffic counts and asked the public questions to get their thoughts. Very grateful for the sunshine! ☀️ @HanleyCastle #geography

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

It’s fieldwork time! 🚌 Yesterday our year 10 cohort explored the Wyre Forest for their river investigation. Students used measuring tapes, metre sticks and hydro-props to measure the width, depth and velocity of Park Brook🌲@HanleyCastle #geography #geographyfieldwork

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

The first volcano party of the season! Volcano themed edible treats and games, including an eruption! 🌋 #geography #geographyteacher #party #volcanoes

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

That’s a wrap! Well done to our year 11s for a great few days! Thankfully the weather was kind to us but still chilly! 🥶 #gcse #geographyteacher #fieldwork

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

A fantastic afternoon at Start Bay for year 11, completing bi-polar surveys at Torcross and beach profiling along Slapton Sands ☀️ @HanleyCastle #gcsefieldwork #geography #fieldwork #devon #slapton

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

It’s A Level Fieldwork time! 😀 🌎 #geographyteacher #snowdonia #fieldwork #learning #greatoutdoors

[Hanley Castle @HanleyCastle]

Geography A Level students enjoying the glacial valley of Cwm Idwal.

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

A massive congratulations to our students! #gcseresultsday2022 #AlevelResultsDay2022

[Hanley Castle @HanleyCastle]

The last two Thursdays have been amazing. Brilliant students collecting A level and GCSE results that they should be really proud of. We are! Well done to all.

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Congratulations to all our A Level students receiving their results today! Wishing you the best of luck for the future! 🎉📚#AlevelResultsDay2022 #geographyteacher #ucas #geography #edexcel

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Year 8 have enjoyed their trips out to the @livrainforest over the past few weeks as part of their Biomes topic this term. A great experience to be immersed in a tropical rainforest and get close up to the flora and fauna! 🦥 🦎 #geography #geographytrip #biomes @HanleyCastle

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Sustainability Club has finally launched! A massive thank you to Elly and her colleagues! Lots of fun had by all 😀🌍 #sustainability #ExtraCurricular #geographyteacher #worcestershire #flooding

[Elena Lengthorn @ELengthorn]

We had a brilliant morning @HanleyCastle delivering our Flood Education Programme to their great new Sustainability Club. From flooded rooms to flood water recipes and tasked with developing their own family flood action plans.
With @drcvjones @MAsbury13 @UWPGSEC @UW_Sustain

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Fancy watching the conditions on the south coast from the safety of your own home? Check out these live webcams! https://t.co/0SG0anK4sH #StormEunice #redweatherwarning #staysafe

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Some local ‘behind the scenes’ at Tewkesbury’s Incident Room monitoring river levels! #StormEunice #worcestershire #flooding

[John Curtin @JPCurtinClimate]

In the Tewkesbury Incident Room - all up and running ahead of #StormEunice - all our warnings and live river levels here as this unfolds https://t.co/FFmBQ9vw6G

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Need another reason why Geography is so great? Look here! 🗺 #skills #career #Geography #Employment #highereducation #furthereducation

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Really looking forward to welcoming students to the Sixth Form Opening Evening tonight! Make sure you pop in and take a look at what Geography has to offer! 🌍🌋✈️🏙📚 @HanleyCastle #geographyteacher #openevening #worcester #worcestershire #alevel #sixthform

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

A small group of year 7’s had a great tour of the recently completed fish pass at Diglis today. The underground viewing window gave us a glimpse of what was lurking beneath the surface of the Severn! A fab day! 🐟☀️ @HanleyCastle #geography @CanalRiverTrust #worcestershire

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

A really insightful webinar for our A Level Geographers this afternoon about the Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland! Lots of links to the Tectonics topic year 12s are currently studying 🌋 Thanks @geoviews! #geography #webinar #alevel #geographyteacher

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

A Level Fieldwork Day 2! Today we walked up to Cwm Idwal to look at the spectacular post-glacial landscape. Students measured the orientation of the ice flow by looking at erratics, striations and roche moutonées!🧊 🧭 @HanleyCastle #snowdonia #fieldtrip #alevel #geography

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

A great first day of A Level fieldwork for our Geographers! Students spent the afternoon in Llandudno practising various data collection techniques for human fieldwork. We were even treated to a double rainbow! 🌈 🗺 @HanleyCastle #alevel #geography #geographyteacher #fieldtrip

[HCHS Geography @GeographyHchs]

Our A Level Geographers had an enjoyable trip out to the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Wednesday afternoon to see Tim Marshall. A very interesting and eye opening talk with lots of curriculum links! Thanks Tim! @Itwitius #CheltLitFest #geography