Our Baffin Island 2010 School Outreach Work

With just under one week to go until we depart to Baffin Island, my team and I would like to share some of the outreach work we have been doing. Since I have been back from the Geographic North Pole expedition things have been in full swing with school talks. My graduate team and I have been busy giving talks all over the country in preparation for this next expedition and the continual work I have been doing over the past 4 years.

Rachel Tate from Loughborough University reflects;

“Throughout the school educational programme I have witnessed the students being inspired to learn; they have not only enjoyed learning about Baffin Island, the expedition, the Inuit’s, the animals, the plants and way of life but it helped facilitate their questioning of climate change, and how our way of life may affect others on this Earth.

Both schools and students have taken full advantage of this enthusiasm for learning; one particular school organised an eco-week with an end of term assembly about all the things they had learnt about the global effects of climate change.

The expedition itself will be the grand finale of their learning experience; they will see first-hand what effects climate change has had on Baffin Island, and will also have an insight into our adventurous journey across the pass. Having the ability to contact us and ask us any questions about our trip has excited the students even more, I do believe this programme has had a lasting positive impact on the schools and students who I have worked with.”

More of Rachel’s work within schools can be found on her website

Words of support to the team by Sir Ranulph Fiennes

“The Baffin Island 2010 expedition is an exciting and inspirational project. I am sure it will be a life changing experience for all involved, especially those setting out on their first expedition. We all start somewhere. Travelling to a remote area of the Arctic represents an opportunity to witness first-hand the beauty of nature, and the rapid changes taking place in the world as a result of human activity. You have all worked extremely hard in putting together this project and raising the funds; the school outreach work you will generate will in itself help inspire others. I wish you all the very best.”

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

Antony Jinman on Baffin Island 2009

Filmed by Josephine Beynon
Edited by Amanda Buckley

Posted 25 July 2010