RWSGeography

Ravenswood School Geography Department

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All boarded and getting ready for take off. Flight on time and still planning to be back at school by 9.30 as planned. We will further update when we land at Heathrow.

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Iceland 🇮🇸 - homeward bound. We are all a little bit sad to be leaving such a wonderful place. We have had an amazing trip: the students have been fantastic and have embraced all the experiences on offer. It’s truly the country where the geography keeps on giving 🌋🤩

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Day 4. - our Icelandic adventure comes to an end with a trip to the geothermal power station and a fantastic close up look at how magma is formed at Reykjavik lava show. An amazing, informative end to a once in a lifetime trip to Iceland- the home of 🔥 and 🧊

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Day 3 final spectacular!! Northern lights got the memo it was our last night and gave us an amazing display 🥰

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Day 3 highlights (part 3) for our last night in Iceland 🇮🇸 students took part in a geography and Iceland related quiz whilst being entertained by a number of talented musicians on the piano.

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Day 3 Iceland highlights (part 2) after lunch we completed a glacier walk where students were able to transverse the ice. We then visited a waterfall at Seljalandsfoss where students could walk behind the waterfall.

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Day 3 Iceland highlights (part 1 - as there are so many) Skogafoss waterfall, the small Icelandic town of Vik and the black beach and caves at Reynosfjara. With the snow pretty much melted, it was a glorious day.

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How could we forget the Geyser! Day 3 and we are off along the south coast of Iceland stopping for more iconic waterfalls and our glacier walk after lunch.

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Fantastic day! After lunch we made it to the secret lagoon and then visited one of the largest waterfalls in Iceland. On the way back to our hotel we stopped at Kerid crater. 🌋

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Day 2 Iceland trip. First stop lava tunnel to see how they are formed. Next stop Secret Lagoon.

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Bridge between 2 continents - it’s cold but stunning scenery and geography in action

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Landed safely and onto our coach. Very cold and lots of snow but looks like it will be a beautiful sunset 🌅

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Year 13 Iceland trip 🇮🇸 All boarded and just waiting for the flight to depart ✈️ much excitement… looking forward to seeing some snow ❄️

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Fieldwork trips well underway in the Geography department. The first of 5 upcoming trips went out with our Year 12 Geographers looking at the success of Regeneration in Margate and then investigating coastal defences at Reculver #FestivalofFieldwork

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Year 12 Geographers investigating geology, lithology and cliff profiles this week #NameThatRock #AweAndWonder 💚🖤

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RWS 6th Form Geographers at: Catastrophe Modelling with Clare Crerar. A discussion about how computer-assisted calculations can be used to estimate the losses that could be sustained due to catastrophic event.

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Yr. 13 Geographers evaluating the positives and negatives of renewable energy. #mitigation #climate change

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Year 13 Geographers attending an extra intervention session on Carbon this week. It’s great to see the students working hard to get the best grades possible next summer. #learn lead excel 🌎🖤💚

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Year 10 Geographers are heading into the local woodlands this week to see how humans impact the ecosystem and woodland management in action. #fieldwork #coppicing

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RWS Yr. 13 Geographers investigating carbon sequestration.