Mid-June and time for the geography southwest Annual Conference, held, once again, at the University of the West of England (UWE) on the northern outskirts of Bristol, but today in a new venue, the Enterprise Park 1 building. Simon Ross, John Davidson, plus Dr Harry West and colleagues at UWE, had done a sterling job of pulling everything together. My …
Round two of climate action planning!
This morning, we welcomed back delegates who had attended our first virtual session in November 2025 for the second of GlosGeog/Met Office/Climate Ambassador‘s climate action planning workshop, led by Nichole (Nicki) Schantz, who is the Climate Ambassador SouthWest Hub Manager, and with a guest appearance from Edd Moore, aka eco edd (https://www.linkedin.com/in/edd-moore-a0369b86/). The Department for Education (DfE) now expects all educational …
GlosGeog collaboration with the Met. Office, University of Reading
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 …
An immersive GIS day!
It was time to be trained today; a bonus to be able to sit back and relax, rather than have the responsibility of presenting for once! Robert (Bob) Lang, a Teacher of Geography at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls in Birmingham, was delivering a CPD GIS day for the King Edward VI Foundation Schools and Worcester branch …
Virtual Primary Geography Subject Leader Network (PGSLN) meeting (2)
It seemed quite a while since our last meeting (October 2024); just the way terms and holidays have fallen. However, we finally managed to get together once again for the second virtual Primary Geography Subject Leader Network (PGSLN) meeting of this academic year. On board this morning were representatives from over 35 schools across England, some familiar faces alongside a few …
geography southwest’s annual conference comes to UWE!
How has a year passed by? It was time for geography southwest’s annual conference, once again hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of the West of England (UWE) on the outskirts of Bristol (https://www.uwe.ac.uk/courses/find-a-course/courses-by-subject/geography-and-environmental-management). I had offered to support the organisers, Dr Harry West, Simon Ross and John Davidson, with welcoming delegates and registration, …
GlosGeog’s Secondary Geography Teach Meet is a success!
Following GlosGeog’s successful virtual Primary Teach Meet in mid-April, it was decided to run a similar event for local secondary school teachers, ECTs and trainees. The Balcarras Trust, where one of the county’s Teaching School Hubs is also based (https://www.balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk/), kindly offered to host GlosGeog’s Secondary Teach Meet, which was attended by myself and Peter Vujakovic, GlosGeog Committee members, alongside …
Twilight CPD, Gloucester Schools Partnership (GSP), Gloucestershire
Lisa Perez, in charge of coordinating the Best Practice Network CPD for all those establishments within the Gloucester Schools Partnership (GSP), approached me to see if I would be available to deliver two, twilight sessions to address areas for development linked to fieldwork and enquiry-led learning that had been outlined by teachers/SLT. Following a Zoom call, in which I provided a …
Effectively sequencing geography and history provision: EYFS – Year 6 (David Weatherly Education)
Twice within the space of a month! It was, once again, time for some CPD for me, delivered as competently and enthusiastically as ever by David Weatherly and with a little help from Sheena Wright, an EYFS specialist. The theme of today’s CPD was ‘Effectively sequencing geography and history provision: EYFS – Year 6‘. After formally welcoming everyone and introducing …
Ensuring successful subject leadership in primary schools
Well, the onus was not on me today! Once in a while, it is rather nice to be able to sit back, listen and absorb. David Weatherly’s third CPD event of this academic year was entitled ‘Ensuring successful subject leadership in primary schools‘ (http://www.davidweatherlyeducation.co.uk/geography-training.html), and very timely it was too, given that I am delivering training to schools within the …
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