Geography Teaching Today

A network for Primary Geography teachers is run by a Gerard O'Sullivan, a Chartered Geographer from Kent.

*Upcoming events- details to be posted here soon*

View details of courses run in Kent by Advisory Service Kent (please contact them for details and to book).

Resources from 5th October Primary CPD day in London available here

PRIMARY TEACHERS: do you have questions about geography in Primary Schools, need ideas and inspiration or just some advice? Post your questions here and Gerard O'sullivan will answer them.

Previous event: Primary Fieldwork: Rivers
A whole day fieldwork training on rivers work for primary teachers
Date: Wednesday 24th March 2010
Venue: Horton Kirby Environmental Education Centre, 29 School Lane, Horton Kirby, Dartford, Kent, DA4 9DQ http://www.kenttrustweb.org.uk/Policy/hortonkirbyeec.cfm
Led by: Gerard O'Sullivan, CGeog and AST Homewood School, and Ian Coulson Geography Advisor, Advisory Service Kent
Agenda
10.00 Introduction to fieldwork in rivers, key questions and enquiry based approaches to studying rivers
11.00 Practical exercise; using rivers fieldwork equipment to answer the key question "How clean is my river?"
13.30 What does our data mean? Classroom based activity to make sense of the data collected during the morning session.
14.30 Risk assessments, a practical approach to devising risk assessments for water based activities
15.00 Plenary 

Previous event: Using Mysteries in Fieldwork for Geography
An opportunity to attend training in how to use fieldwork for cross curricular studies in Key Stage 2.
Target Group: Teachers (Key Stage 2)
Facilitated by: Gerard O'Sullivan, CGeog and AST Homewood School
Date: February 2010
Venue: Linden Grove Primary School, Ashford 

Previous event: Creativity, project planning and teaching geography at KS2
Venue: RGS-IBG, London
Date: Monday 5th October 2009
Led by Ian Coulson and Gerard O'Sullivan CGeog
Activity 1: Touching the world using artefacts to develop a sense of place: An exploration of the RGS-IBG.
Activity 2: Project planning; practical examples of how to put together an integrated creative curriculum.
Activity 3: A Gory time in Kensington: a transferable practical activity using the local environment for creative fieldwork ideas.

Previous event: Teaching Geography at Key Stage 1 and 2, Mapping the New Curriculum
Held on 12th February 2009
This event covered: The creative learning journey at Sweyne Junior school, the new Geography Curriculum and Project based approaches, Geography through the window and Fieldwork in your school grounds and a simple guide to using Google Earth in the classroom. The feedback from the event was great; thanks to Gerard O'Sullivan and Ian Coulson for running the day.

Previous event: RGS-IBG Fieldwork Day
Held on 21st May 2009 in Hythe
Based in the Hythe Imperial Hotel and also working on the beach along from Hythe towards Folkestone. The aim of the session was to give two field work activities, one in the morning based on looking at long shore drift gathering material in the field. The afternoon session looked at landscape changes using historical maps and secondary data. Each session was delivered via a Mystery and explored creative ways to produce the final reports. Thanks to Gerard O'Sullivan and Ian Coulson for running the day.

To register your interest in this network please email cgeogteacher@rgs.org  

Title image courtesy of flickr user jig o'dance (creative commons)