And here we are! Ready for the #GAConf24 in Manchester. Visit us at the Ordnance Survey stand for a quick chat about Digimap for Schools (plus award winning print resources by Dr Paula Owens FRGS and David Gardner !) #GeographyTeacher

Congratulations Ellie baby looks gorgeous the fun begins !

I really am lucky to chair a SIG full of brilliant people! ⬇️ If you would like to know more about what we do come along to our pop up exhibition in the reception area at 12.40pm today! #GAConf24

Chairing a SIG is a joy and privilege

Really enjoyed presenting at conference. Find out more about planning a coherent geography curriculum for pupil progress with concepts and working like a geographer at the Hodder Education and GA publications stands

Really enjoyed your presidential session Denise you are a fantastic GA president amazing what you’ve done

Join AESIG today 11.45 room 4.205 to meet subject leader Katherine Baulcomb explain how she uses the AESIG exam analysis to evaluate her school’s results

Katherine Baulcomb begins her session providing an overview of the work of the GA’s AESIG group today at conference

Understandable given what’s happening at Ofsted such a pity the value and importance of subjects and curriculum is being undermined. But we do have an invaluable subject report for geography that signposts good practice. Well done Mark !

This week's featured book is: The Handbook of Secondary Geography. This is a great resource for geography teachers to assess whether they are teaching high-quality, relevant and challenging geography. Available in the shop in pdf and print. (GA members should remember to take

This is an invaluable book covering much of school geography written by top geographers

You might find it useful to look at the structure of Hodder education Progress in Geography KS3 which has been devised with progression, sequencing, concepts, procedural knowledge and coherence in mind

Really looking forward to working with the fieldwork special interest group FOLSIG today to develop guidance for the GA on progression in geography fieldwork 5to 19

hoddereducation.com/progress-in-ge… provides a wide range of ks3 resources both in terms of the student book and online materials in Boost including sow lesson plans, activities, animations, video interviews with experts, over 1000 weblinks to enhance learning, PowerPoints for each lesson.

Hodder education progress in geography place, space, scale, earths system, economy, development, population, sustainability - all defined in glossary embedded across units explained in each sow and the curriculum map hoddereducation.com/progress-in-ge… see webinar videos for overview

Good. You will also find a curriculum map you can download in Excel which provides key performance indicators for each of three progression strands that run across each unit - world knowledge of locations, geographical understanding (concepts), application of skills & enquiry

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Great article demonstrating the important role geography plays in the curriculum. Labour must put sustainability at the heart of its opportunity mission schoolsweek.co.uk/labour-must-pu…

Following the announcement of an independent review of Curriculum and Assessment, the Geographical Association wants to hear your views on the geography National Curriculum and GCSE and A level content and assessment. Link: geography.org.uk/geography-curr…

How to make geography fieldwork effective | via Steve Brace Geographical Association bit.ly/4cEQlHF