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❄️🌍 What does it take to walk to both the North and South Poles? Passion, determination, and the courage to act.

Our Grade 5 students had an extraordinary opportunity to hear from Mr. Robert Swan, the first person in history to walk to both the North and South Poles! 🧭✨

As our students dive into their PYP Exhibition, Mr. Swan’s journey served as an inspiring showcase that expressing our passions through action can spark real change. He shared the moments that inspired his life’s work and demonstrated how following your true passion can lead to creating a meaningful, lasting impact on the world. 🌍💡

Thank you, Mr. Swan, for taking the time to share your story with us. 🙏

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This is how 👇
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Most of the time, clothes will be sent off to Chile to be cleaned. However, with a turnaround time of 3 weeks, sometimes you need clothes a little sooner than that!⁠
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In that case, this hand-powered washing machine comes in very handy!

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#teachersofinstagram #primaryteacher #primaryteaching

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What does it take to walk to both the North and South Poles? @robertcswan , the first man to do both, came to FIS to tell our students.

At FIS, we believe empowering our students to reach their potential doesn’t just happen in the classroom. It happens when they meet people who prove that no dream is too far to reach.

Sir Robert Swan’s visit gave our students more than a story of adventure. It showed them resilience, purpose, and the responsibility we all share to protect our planet — through his 2041 Foundation and his mission to preserve Antarctica for future generations.

Thank you, Sir Robert Swan, for sharing your journey with our students. You’ve reminded the next generation of explorers, who might just be sitting in our classrooms, that the greatest expeditions begin with a single step.
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Que faut-il pour marcher jusqu’aux pôles Nord et Sud ? Sir Robert Swan, le premier homme à avoir accompli cet exploit, est venu au LFI pour en parler à nos élèves.

Parce qu’au LFI, nous croyons que les rencontres inspirantes contribuent elles aussi à permettre à nos élèves d’atteindre leur potentiel. Celles, notamment, avec des personnes qui prouvent qu’aucun rêve n’est impossible.

Sir Robert Swan a offert à nos élèves bien plus qu’un récit d’aventure : une leçon de résilience et de détermination, et un rappel de la responsabilité qui nous incombe tous de protéger notre planète, un engagement qu’il porte à travers sa fondation 2041 et sa mission de préserver l’Antarctique pour les générations futures.

Merci, Sir Robert Swan, d’avoir partagé votre parcours avec cette future génération d’explorateurs qui se cachent peut-être dans nos salles de classe. Vous avez rappelé à nos élèves qu’aucun horizon n’est inaccessible, pour peu que l’on ait le courage d’aller vers lui.

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This is why we started @2041schools 🇦🇶⁠

Our founder, Jenny, explains the story behind our charity and why building a community of Champions of Antarctica is so important 🐧

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What fun we had during Penguin Day! 🐧⁠
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Rookwood School’s Year 3 and 4 Champions of Antarctica arrived in penguin-themed costumes and took part in a range of fun and creative activities, including crafting, singing, and a penguin hunt, all while learning about the urgent need to protect Antarctica.⁠
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If you’d like to open your children’s eyes to the wonder of this beautiful continent, download our free resource pack (KS1 & 2) at the link in our bio: @2041schools 🇦🇶

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My travel anecdotes 🙈 part 1

A compilation of my travel anecdotes in photos: that night I never thought I would photograph the aurora over Big Ben. Or the day I walked into the underworld of a glow worm tunnel and made my first publication for Nat Geo. Or that intense moment in Antarctica, travelling with Robert Swan, when I won my first world photography award. All these photos hold memories that will stay with me forever 🥰

Which is your favorite?

#artofvisuals #escapeandwonder #travel #traveladdict #passionpasseport

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From the first person to ever walk to both the North and South Poles to a device tested in Antarctic sub-zero conditions — this is proof that recovery technology has no limits.

Watch how Rapid Release travels the globe, keeps up with extreme expeditions, and earns trust from explorers pushing the boundaries of human endurance.
Proven on every continent.
Trusted by adventurers everywhere.

#RapidRelease #NotAMassageGun #radianceteam

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I’ve always dreamed of creating a film like this.

A film that could somehow capture what it feels like to stand in places that make you forget about your phone, your inbox, your plans - and just LOOK.

Over the last few years, I’ve been incredibly lucky to experience some of the wildest corners of our planet. I’ve crossed oceans, walked through forests, stood beneath mountains, travelled through deserts, gone underwater, and eventually found myself at both ends of the Earth.

And somewhere along the way, I started filming.

Some moments were beautiful. Some were completely ordinary. Some lasted only a few seconds. I didn’t know exactly what I would do with all of them then. I just knew I wanted to remember how they made me feel.

𝑩𝒆𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒑 brings those moments together.

It’s not really a film about travelling to faraway places. It’s about wonder. About that feeling of being completely in awe of the world around you - and how easy it is to lose that feeling in everyday life.

@citizenearth_ came from wanting to hold on to it.

To create things, tell stories and bring people together in ways that make us a little more curious about this planet we call home. This film is a collection of places that changed something in me.

And it feels incredibly special that it now gets to be the film that introduces CitizenEarth™ to the world. I hope, even for a few minutes, it makes you want to go outside.

To look a little closer.
To explore somewhere you’ve never been.
Or simply to notice something you’ve walked past a hundred times before.

Because maybe reconnecting with Earth doesn’t always require going to the ends of it. Sometimes, it just requires paying attention.

Welcome to CitizenEarth™. Delighted you’re here 🩵

A big thank you to @apple for partnering with us to help us capture the journey that became this story.

Gratitude also to @2041foundation @climateforce.360 @oceangeographic @dr.sylviaearle @robertcswan for opening the doors to places, perspectives and experiences that changed everything.

Additional footage by @oliwheeldontravels @awtimate

#CitizenEarth #BrandFilm #RekindletheBond #SustainableFashion

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For Penguin Day 2026, Champions of Antarctica created the game Penguin Pairs — here’s a clip of them explaining the rules! 🐧
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The day itself was so much fun.
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Children arrived in penguin-themed costumes and took part in a range of fun and creative activities, including crafting, singing, and a penguin hunt, all while learning about the urgent need to protect Antarctica’s fragile ecosystem.⁠
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Our founder, Jenny, loved taking part in Rookwood School’s second Penguin Day after the success of last year!⁠
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If you’d like to open your children’s eyes to the wonder of this beautiful continent, download our free resource pack (KS1 & 2) at the link in our bio: @2041schools

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Look at the wonderful artwork Year 3 and 4 Champions of Antarctica made for Penguin Day 2026! 😍⁠
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If you’d like to open your children’s eyes to the wonder of this beautiful continent, download our free resource pack (KS1 & 2) at the link in our bio: @2041schools⁠
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#ks2 #ks1 #antarctica #primaryteacher #primaryschool

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Penguin Day is the brainchild of Rookwood School’s Year 3 and 4 “Champions of Antarctica” club.⁠
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It aims to raise awareness about the importance of protecting the continent and the significance of the year 2041, when key environmental agreements are due to be reviewed.⁠
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Children arrived in penguin-themed costumes and took part in a range of fun and creative activities, including crafting, singing, and a penguin hunt, all while learning about the urgent need to protect Antarctica’s fragile ecosystem.⁠
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Our founder, Jenny, loved taking part in Rookwood School’s second Penguin Day after the success of last year!⁠
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If you’d like to open your children’s eyes to the wonder of this beautiful continent, download our free resource pack (KS1 & 2) at the link in our bio: @2041schools

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#ks2 #ks1 #antarctica #primaryteacher #primaryschool

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Six months and thousands of miles from the slopes of Mt Erebus to the heart of British maritime science @royalmuseumsgreenwich

Our scientific expedition has officially come to a close where so many great maritime stories begin at Greenwich. What started in Hobart, Australia took us deep into the Southern Ocean to Ross Island, Antarctica pulling sleds to the summit of Mt Erebus.

Over the past six months, ours sleds have made an epic voyage back by sea, across the Southern Ocean to Timaru, New Zealand, traversing the vast Pacific, through the Panama Canal, and crossing the Atlantic to return home to the UK.

Unloaded at Greenwich Pier, we carried the sleds through the Old Royal Navy College to the National Maritime Museum, a surreal final step bringing Antarctic science full circle to the spiritual home of British navigation.

Our immense gratitude to the team, our expedition safety manager @jasonflesher, the crew of @ScenicDiscoveryYachts Eclipse II, the patronage of @danny_the_vet, advice of Antarctic conservationist @robertcswan, @sesexplore, our amazing wives @stephaniewildphoto, @ariellesage and everyone who helped us push science to the edge of the world and safely back again.

The findings have been analysed and submitted to journals for peer review and we are excited to share shortly in support of Antarctic conservation, biosecurity and responsible polar research.

ATA ⚓ GBR

#Antarcticexpedition #MaritimeGreenwich #Polarexploration #Erebus #Nationalmaritimemuseum

With thanks to @tim_vanvuuren for his photography throughout the expedition!

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