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Year 9 visit the Thames Barrier
January 14, 2025

Year 9 visit the Thames Barrier

On Monday, Year 9 enjoyed a Geography fieldtrip to the Thames Barrier.

They learnt about how the barrier helps to prevent both fluvial and tidal flooding in London and played a game to understand our own personal responsibility should a flood occur.

The structure is really impressive and it was great to consider that our pupils could one day be the future engineers working to improve its functionality!

The Pause

At St James, we feel it is important to introduce our pupils to stillness and allow them to discover how to be inwardly free and deeply at ease within themselves. A short period of 5-10 minutes at the beginning and middle of every day is allocated to quietude in which pupils may meditate, contemplate or simply be still – according to their own spiritual inclinations.

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