Activities for the week began by considering what students would like to know about life in Antarctica, the most remote and unspoilt continent in the world. Students were very keen to find out the answers to practical day-to-day ‘housekeeping questions’ such as:  

‘How do you poo in Antarctica?’  

‘Where do you take a shower?’ 

‘Can you get sunburnt?’ 

‘What’s it like to sleep there?’ 

Miss. Clay, our Science teacher, has a friend who has completed an expedition across the snowy continent, and she has asked him to record a video for our students to answer their questions. 

Other subjects used the theme to develop learning across the curriculum, with students learning about Ernest Shakleton’s expeditions and completing diary entries as part of their ‘Journeys of Discovery’ unit in English, whilst in Art lessons, students created mixed media ‘iceberg’ pictures using smashed up Fox’s Glacier Mints. 

Centre Manager, Caroline Camber, said ‘Theme days and weeks are a fun way to really engage and immerse students in a topic and help them to join the dots between subjects. The Science Week theme this year of ‘curiosity’ could have led us in any direction and has hopefully prompted our students to think more curiously about things they don’t know about (yet) in order to learn more about the world around them.’