Today, it was time for GlosGeog to join forces with Nichole (Nicki) Schantz, who is the Climate Ambassador SouthWest Hub Manager and based at the Met. Office at the University of Reading, to offer one of two FREE CPD workshops centred around climate action planning. There is an expectation from the Department for Education (DfE) that all educational settings should …
Dr Rebecca Kitchen visits GlosGeog!
GlosGeog, Gloucestershire’s local Geographical Association (GA) branch, was fortunate to receive a visit from Dr Rebecca Kitchen, Head of Professional Development at the Geographical Association (GA), this afternoon. The event, aimed at secondary teachers, ECTs and trainees, was kindly hosted by Odyssey Teaching School Hub based at Pate’s Grammar School in Cheltenham. After formally welcoming and introducing everybody, I handed …
Bespoke CPD: Longney C of E Primary Academy, Gloucestershire
My first in situ delivery of bespoke CPD for a while! It felt good to be back too rather than simply doing everything virtually! Ms Penny Howard, the Head Teacher at Longney C of E Primary Academy (http://www.longney.gloucs.sch.uk/website), approached me just before February half-term to see if I could pop into school and work with their Geography Subject Leader and …
Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) Day, Parkinson Lane Community Primary School, Halifax
No travel for me, but remote working instead as Halifax was a little too far to go in a day. Using Skype, I managed to link up with David Weatherly (http://davidweatherlyeducation.co.uk/), who was on site at Parkinson Lane Community Primary School (https://www.parkinsonlane.com/) to deliver some bespoke CPD related to the Geographical Association’s Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) award. David has …