Fieldwork
East London Network
East London Network Event:
The next East London Network event will take place on Thursday 4th March 2010. Building on the success of last June's Olympic-focused CPD day in Stratford, this half-day of fieldwork CPD, will be held at the View Tube - the new visitor, education, and community venue on the Greenway next to the Olympic Park.
The event will be led by Geographer John Widdowson who will be sharing a range of Geography fieldwork opportunities available through the Field Studies Council at this venue.This is a great opportunity to find out more about what the View Tube has to offer geography teachers and students!
We will also be running an 'Olympic Swapshop' as part of the session to enable teachers working in the East London area to share thoughts, ideas, practical tips and experiences of developing Olympic fieldwork.
Date: Thursday 4th March 2010, 9.30am-12.30pm
Venue: View Tube, the Greenway, adjacent to the Olympic Park
To book a place, or for further information, please contact Dr Holly McLaren on h.mclaren@rgs.org
The East London fieldwork network has a real focus on the opportunities for geography fieldwork surrounding the London 2012 Olympic Games. The first meeting for this network took the form of a day of field-based CPD in Stratford and the surrounding area, during which the 20 teachers who attended participated in a range of activities that they could subsequently adapt and use with students of a range of ages within an integrated fieldwork programme.
The aim of the day was for teachers to consider the types of enquiry questions that could be asked about the London 2012 site and wider regeneration implications for the area. For example, Why was Stratford chosen as the main venue for the London 2012 Olympics and was it a good choice?
The day was led by Ruth Standing, a geography teacher at Barking Abbey School and Alan Kinder, geography adviser for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
The sites visited during the day were:
1. Stratford town centre - to create a 'place profile' for Stratford and to consider whether the redevelopment in the area is already having an impact.
2. Holden Point viewing gallery - to view the Olympic site
3. Stratford New Town - to focus on whether regeneration is causing a physical, social and economic divide in the town and to consider a range of viewpoints about the Games.
4. Stratford Station - to find out about the Stratford transport system past, present and future.
5. The Greenway (Pudding Mill Lane) - to get another view of the site and to discuss the Olympic legacy.
Download the timetable for the day
If you are interested in becoming involved with this fieldwork network, please contact Eleanor Coulber by emailing fieldwork@rgs.org