Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

The threat to rainforest from human hands is posing new challenges for species to battle with. Cool Earth a Cornish charity helping protect the rainforest is running a competition for students do design their own organism. (Visit http://www.coolearth.org/) The competition is open to all primary school children across the UK and secondary students aged 12 [...]

(Pictured with the year 12 students are Dan Roberts, Assistant Head and Jemma Woodman from COOL EARTH, who came in to film the students’ work.) Last week as part of a unit of work looking at fermentation, a class of Yr12 completing the L3 BTEC in Forensic Science carried out a practical with a bit [...]

This Tuesday ten lucky year 8 students from saltash.net travelled with myself and our Headteacher Isobel Bryce, to Home Park for the launch of the COOL EARTH –COOL SCHOOL initiative. If you have read my blogs on Peru (Pisco Sours, Ponchos & Panpipes) you will already know that Cool Earth is a Cornish based charity [...]

Nik Peachey is a learning technology consultant, I downloaded his recent document web 2.0 tools for teachers and shared this with the teachers in our school. You can follow him or message him on twitter http://twitter.com/NikPeachey or visit one of his blogs for teachers: http://nikpeachey.blogspot.com/ I tried one of Nik’s suggestions out and so did [...]

Wow so this probably is my last blog post specifically about our visit to the Ashaninka people with Cool Earth. I promised to keep it to no more than ten, I could have written about ten more but I am sure I will be writing follow up posts on the Teacher fellowship itself, potential fundraising [...]

So it was our second day in Tinkerani but we had a few issues with our return travel. To cut a long story short there were some potential issues with a little bit of civil unrest, road closings, poor weather for flying and possibly a small issue of confusion over what day it actually was. [...]

So we had been in Peru for a good few days now and in the rainforest for a couple and guess what we hadn’t even seen a sniff of rain (A very common saying in Peru). So we had been for a lovely swim in the river after getting very hot and sticky on the [...]

Sorry for interrupting the very long blog on Peru – (In some ways I feel it is turning into a toilet roll, I don’t mean it is like what you use toilet roll for! mmm I seem to be digressing to faeces once again it appears to be inevitable with me! What I mean to say it [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btNuIE90oxs So what I failed to tell you last post when I talked about the amazing time we had at the local school in Cuti meeting the teachers and students that one of our party was missing. No surprises for guessing that it was Matthias, this was after the sheer exhaustion and the meteoric euphoria [...]

(Photo of Emily with school students) Now I know it isn’t appropriate to talk about your toilet habits so if you’re not interested in that type of thing or perhaps are eating right now then please skip this next paragraph. Whilst at Cuti we were introduced to how we would use the facilities, obviously so [...]