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 …
GlosGeog secures Professor Ilan Kelman to speak!
Professor Ilan Kelman‘s book, ‘Disaster by Choice‘, is one that is found in many a geography classroom around the world. As a result, this event, coordinated by GlosGeog (Gloucestershire’s local Geographical Association [GA] branch), proved to be very popular, with over 40 schools from the UK and mainland Europe opting to access the speaker session in real time or via …
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 …
Year 6 geography day (Tom Roberts Adventure Centre – TRAC)
What a day, and blessed with some warm, fine weather too! After a successful application for funding from the Frederick Soddy Trust (https://www.rgs.org/in-the-field/in-the-field-grants/teacher-grants/frederick-soddy-schools-award/), 54 Year 6 pupils and their teachers from Dunalley Primary School (http://www.dunalley.gloucs.sch.uk/) arrived on Monday 20th May at the Tom Roberts Adventure Centre (TRAC) (https://www.tracnewent.org.uk/) for a ‘geography day’ with a difference. Rather than being in the …