Students have recently collaborated with OASES (Outdoor and Sustainability Educational Specialists) and the Environment Agency to raise awareness of the risk of flooding in Middlesbrough.

Current Year 8 Geography students have recently been involved in an important collaboration with OASES (Outdoor and Sustainability Educational Specialists) and the Environment Agency to raise awareness of the risk of flooding in Middlesbrough, specifically around the Middlesbrough Beck area.

As part of their work on this Geography project, students have made a film, funded by the Environment Agency, to be shown in primary schools throughout the town. The idea is to educate children and families on the risk of flooding and to promote the Flood Warning Service provided by the EA.

As well as creating a very useful educational resource, all the students involved have learnt a great deal about the challenges posed by flooding and the effects of climate change on our local area. Middlesbrough is one of the communities identified by the EA as being at significant risk of flooding and climate scientists predict that climate change will increase the frequency of extreme weather events-heat waves, heavy snow, gales and floods. Communities in north-east England have increasingly suffered from flooding in recent years including floods in Hexham in 2001, Corbridge in 2005, Morpeth in 2008 and Wolsingham in 2012. Recent extremes of weather have generated much debate around adapting how we live in the light of climate change predictions.

Please look below to view the films which our students made with producer Andrew Coats of Duffel Films.