Press Releases

Fuchs Foundation Second Polar Expedition 2009
As the Fuchs Foundation\'s Antarctic Expedition 2007 is screened on Teachers TV this week, the next expedition in 2009 to the Arctic is in the planning stages.
Published: 03/04/08

Anniversary Celebrations at St. Johns College, Cambridge
Fifty years after the successful completion of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition (TAE) on 2nd March 1958 and a hundred years after Sir Vivian Fuchs’s birth on 11th February 1908, family, friends, supporters, and Fuchs Scholars will celebrate with a fundraising dinner at St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Published: 25/02/08

Teachers finally back for Christmas
After hours of tension, waiting and watching the snow blow across the cleared runway, the Fuchs Foundation teachers have finally flown out of the Antarctic.
Published: 19/12/07

Teachers Grounded In White Out Antarctica
The Fuchs Foundation teachers due to return home from Antarctica for a Christmas reunion with their families are being delayed by severe weather conditions.
Published: 19/12/07

UK Schools Link Up with their Sub-Zero Teachers in an exciting first
Having recently arrived in Antarctica to carry out research, Science and Geography teachers Amy Rogers and Ruth Hollinger will be speaking to their students via a live satellite-link to their classroom on 4th December.
Published: 26/11/07

Meeting with Jim Knight, Sports Minister
On Wednesday 24 October at the House of Commons, Schools Minister Jim Knight MP, will meet with the four science and geography teachers selected to travel to the Antarctic for the Fuchs Foundation Expedition.
Published: 19/10/07

Anniversary lecture and teachers departure
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Commonwealth Trans Antarctic Expedition The first teachers\' Antarctic expedition gets ready to leave
Published: 17/10/07

Norway - A Place to Practice!
Norway, like the UK, was wet. The rain on ice was slippery and they had to wear crampons all the time. Sleeping in tents felt like floating on a li-lo in a swimming pool but cooler! But teachers Phil Avery, Ruth Hollinger, Ian Richardson and Amy Rogers said they found it a lot of fun and it helped them to visualise what a normal day is going to be like in the Antarctic.
Published: 03/09/07

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