Our latest GlosGeog event (a CPD workshop aimed at primary school teachers, ECTs and trainees) was kindly hosted by The Balcarras Trust (https://www.balcarras.gloucs.sch.uk/). On board today were individuals from 18 schools across the county, some current GlosGeog members and others whom we soon recruited! Darren Bailey, from Ordnance Survey (OS), joined us for the first part to provide an overview …
geography southwest Annual Conference, University of the West of England (UWE)
Well, it was, once again, time to venture down the M5 to Bristol for geography southwest’s Annual Conference. It was a rather early start for me as I was supporting the organisers, Simon Ross, John Davidson and Harry West, with the welcoming and registration of delegates … and there were quite a few! In fact, tickets were sold well in …
A GlosGeog and Ordnance Survey (OS) collaboration
It is not very often that you get the opportunity to ‘come and hone your geographical skills, have a play with Digimap for Schools and conduct a fieldwork enquiry within the school grounds … all in the space of a day!‘. Thanks to support from the Balcarras Trust and Darren Bailey from Ordnance Survey (OS), GlosGeog (Gloucestershire’s local Geographical Association [GA] branch), were …
Primary Humanities Subject Leaders’ Network meeting, Sir Thomas Rich’s School (STRS), Gloucester
Our second Primary Humanities Subject Leaders’ Network meeting of this academic year was held in the Pavilion at Sir Thomas Rich’s School (STRS) in Gloucester. The theme for today’s session was ‘Maps, maps and more maps!’ following requests from individuals at our last meeting. We were a little smaller in number than usual as a few regulars had prior school commitments, e.g. …