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 …
Fancy taking part in our next multi-schools event – ‘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 ‘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 the intention of developing locational and place …
Virtual Primary Humanities Network meeting (Term 6); ‘Taking learning outside the classroom’.
At the request of many individuals, I managed to squeeze in another virtual Primary Humanities Network meeting before the end of the academic year. The theme for our meeting was ‘Taking learning outside the classroom: Developing geographical skills and fieldwork opportunities and ideas for local history studies’. If this was a face-to-face session, then I would usually take teachers outside and …
Primary Humanities Network meeting (Gloucestershire Heritage Hub)
A different venue to our usual one! At a previous Network meeting, John Putley, Hub Facilities Manager, very kindly offered to host one of our future gatherings at the new Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, so I took him up on this straightaway! I led a HLF WWW1 school and community groups’ project back in 2014-2015 and had a lot of dealings …
Primary Humanities Network meeting (Progression and assessment in geography and history – part 2)
Since we did not have time for in-depth sharing and moderation of pupils’ work during our last meeting, it was requested that we gather again purely for this purpose. Despite it being the week after SATs and several teachers committed to previously booked residential visits or day trips, we managed to get a few of us together prior to the …
AQA GCSE Geography Network meeting , Marling School, Stroud, Gloucestershire
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to pop along to Marling School this afternoon to hear Stacey Hill, AQA’s Head of Curriculum for Geography, speak about ‘Improving performance on key themes from summer 2018′. The session was divided into four parts, namely: Key outcomes of summer 2018: Including using geographical terminology. The use of stimulus material in GCSE …
Regional Primary Geography Conference, Bowden Hall Hotel, Gloucester
I do love this annual event! Not only is it always incredibly inspiring, engaging and thought-provoking, but we are also supplied with plentiful refreshments throughout the day and treated to a delicious lunch on comfy sofas overlooking the beautifully kept grounds. This theme of this year’s conference was ‘Geographical skills and fieldwork – ensuring coverage and progression‘. We were given …
The Education Show
Birmingham (16th to 18th March 2017)
Despite it being the Gold Cup at Cheltenham, a Friday and endless roadworks on the M5 with speed restrictions in place, my journeys to and from the NEC were bearable. It was not Young Voices calling this time around, but The Education Show (http://www.education-show.com/)! I try to visit annually or bi-annually to keep abreast with developments within the realm of …