Well, it has been busy here in History. The war is over, Cromwell is dead. It is time to restore the monarchy. Probably better to get a King everyone will love. Well, they did. Charles II – named “The Merry Monarch ” as he liked hunting ,partying and he brought back the things that made people happy. We played a memory game in which we needed to find pieces of paper with the changes applied by Charles II written on. We also labeled boxes in which we needed to write down the Glorious Revolution: from the birth of James in 1688 to the coronation of William and Mary in 1689. We also studied the Declaration of Breda in which Charles II convinced parliament that he should be allowed to return to England and rule as king.To do this he needed to make five promises, such as pay the army and not take revenge on those who killed his father. It all ends in 1689, where King Billy casting aside James II ensures the British Monarchy remains Protestant even today!
In geography, we have been studying different LEDCs in the world. An LEDC is a less economically developed country. There are many reasons why a country is poor, for example, the history of the country (if it participated in many wars which made the economy fall), it’s geographical position (if it is near the equator or landlocked), the aid the other countries give it (if it is enough to continue the development or just to make some changes), and institutions (if its banks are credible or corrupt, the services it provides, the police, education and health – development all depends on these core institutions being reliable and well managed). We also needed to use development indicators ( a tool to calculate how much that country is developing, although they are just an average). We were then divided into different groups with the aim of creating a PowerPoint researching an LEDC following the success criteria. One of our presentations is shared below, for your viewing pleasure…
This month in science we started looking at magnetism and understood how energy is related with it. We looked at different magnetic fields between same and opposite poles. We also discovered the Earth’s magnetic field and looked at the right hand rule, a way of determining the direction of a current. In the second part of the month we studied electromagnetic induction, the process by which a magnetic changes a current. At the end of the month we also studied permanent magnet, which retains its qualities even when broken up, temporary magnets, inherits magnetic qualities when attached to another magnet and electromagnets which are materials that become magnetic when currents pass through them.
In December, the Year 9 class has taken a look at Pre-Raphaelites. We have studied the style and the movement which is led by both artists and poets. The main artists are Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Millais. The main poet of this period of time is Christina Rossetti (Dante Gabriel’s sister). With both Mr. Clarke and Mr. Stonemason, we debated on our thoughts about beauty as a concept and connected that theme to Ophelia by Millais and In The Bleak Mid-Winter, the most famous English carol, by Christina Rossetti.
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