After being approached for some advice by Hetal Trivedi, Geography Subject Leader at World’s End Junior School (https://worldsendjuniors.co.uk/) last week, I managed to squeeze in a couple of bespoke CPD sessions to assist her with their whole school curriculum planning. Geography is currently taught in two, three week blocks; one in Autumn 2 and the other in Summer 1. Whilst this …
Geographical Association (GA) ‘In the Know’ webinar series
Thursday afternoon soon comes around again … time for another ‘In the Know’ webinar. This week the focus was on ‘Mountains and volcanoes’, one of my favourite themes to teach when I was in the classroom. Word seems to have spread about our weekly webinars as our audience continues to grow, both in real time and for listening/viewing when time …
EYFS training day: Introducing history in the Early Years
Once in a while, it is rather pleasant to be able to sit back, relax a little and be on the receiving end of some fantastic virtual CPD! Today, it was the turn of David Weatherly and Sheena Wright to engage and inspire us. David Weatherly is a School Improvement Adviser and an accomplished teacher at all stages of learning, …
Term 3’s Primary Humanities Network meeting goes virtual once again!
This meeting proved to be very timely; an opportunity for primary teachers to connect with each other and gain some much-needed inspiration and support after two very challenging weeks at the start of Term 3. The foci for today’s meeting, decided after reviewing the many suggestions provided at our last Primary Humanities Network meeting in November 2020, were ‘Exploring a …
Geographical Association (GA) ‘In the Know’ webinar series
It was, once again, time for another ‘In the Know’ webinar; this week the focus was on ‘Rivers and the water cycle’, a theme that frequently appears on many whole school curriculum plans. Word seemed to have spread about the first successful webinar as we were joined by even more teachers in real time, which was lovely. If you have …
Geographical Association (GA) ‘In the Know’ webinar series
Last November, I was approached by those at the Geographical Association (GA) to see if I would be interested in delivering six webinars aimed at primary school teachers and linked to their popular ‘In the Know’ series. The ‘In the Know’ series is designed to help primary school teachers with their background knowledge of geographical themes and topics that they …
Fancy a virtual trip to South America?
‘Interesting; extraordinary; intriguing; wonderful; informative.’ ‘Packed full of new learning.’ ‘Extremely informative, lots and lots of learning done in one day!’ ‘Interesting, engaging, exciting.’ ‘Very thought provoking.’ ‘Thanks for Wednesday, it was fab!’ Following the success and very positive feedback from our first multi-schools event (https://create2inspire.co.uk/2020/10/15/lets-go-on-a-scintillating-south-american-adventure/), we decided to offer another virtual ‘scintillating South American adventure’ to Upper Key Stage …
Off to South America once again … virtually, of course!
Following the success and very positive feedback from our first multi-schools event (https://create2inspire.co.uk/2020/10/15/lets-go-on-a-scintillating-south-american-adventure/), we decided to offer another virtual ‘scintillating South American adventure’ to Upper Key Stage 2 teachers and their pupils. This time, more than 450 children and staff from five schools across the south west were involved (Coalway Junior School and Berry Hill Primary School in the Forest …
Fancy taking part in our next multi-schools event – ‘From local to global: Exploring our connections’?
Rachel Shilston, a former secondary school art teacher and owner of Inspiring Creativity in the Forest of Dean (https://www.rachelshilston.co.uk/) and myself have joined forces to offer a virtual multi-schools event entitled ‘’From local to global: Exploring our connections’. The whole day’s workshop is aimed at Upper Key Stage 2 children and their teachers/TAs. It explores areas of the National Curriculum programme of study for geography, with …
A great way to start 2021 … pop along to our next virtual Primary Humanities Network meeting!
Just a handful of the ‘concluding comments‘ from attendees at our last virtual Primary Humanities Network meeting: ‘Always a useful, relevant and thought-provoking session, with a chance to network with other teachers and led by a super-knowledgeable, but practical practitioner.’ ‘As always, Emma, you give me endless ideas, so much support with resources, and enthuse me with ideas that I …