A rewarding hour or so for me this morning providing Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) support to Emma Aldred-Tow, PPA teacher and Geography Subject Leader at Churchdown Village Junior School (CVJS) just outside the city of Gloucester (https://www.churchdownvillage-jun.gloucs.sch.uk/). The school is due to renew their PGQM (currently a Silver Award) and are now considering going for a Gold Award, bearing …
Term 6’s Primary Humanities Network meeting goes virtual once again and well beyond Gloucestershire!
Well, Zoom certainly brought a buzz to my study on Wednesday afternoon! Not only did I have several ‘regulars’ in attendance at our virtual Primary Humanities Network meeting, but also many new participants; I think we had teachers from as far afield as Cumbria in the north to Dorset in the south and Nottinghamshire in the east to Greater Manchester in …
Curriculum development (Churchdown Village Junior School [CVJS], Gloucestershire)
And, more curriculum development today! It was back to Churchdown Village Junior School (CVJS) just outside the city of Gloucester to work with Emma Aldred-Tow, a very experienced Geography Subject Leader, to see how we might make their current geography curriculum offering even better. The school attained their Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) Silver Award a few years ago and …
Primary Humanities Network meeting, Gloucestershire Heritage Hub
Our second meeting of this academic year, with the theme of ‘Ofsted’s new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) and the 3Is – Part 2’, was again held at the newly refurbished Gloucestershire Heritage Hub (https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/heritage-hub), thanks to their very kind offer to host the event and supply complimentary refreshments. Instead of being in the Dunrossil Centre, we were based in the Frith …