The fourth Geographical Association Worldwise Quiz was held on Monday 1st December at Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute. It was entered by 7 teams and keenly contested, with Beechen Cliff School’s team winning the Don Lovell Trophy by a…
Yearly Archives: 2014
St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple win Bristol Worldwise Quiz 2014
Twelve teams from Clifton College, Backwell, Red Maids’, Bristol Grammar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Redland High and St Mary Redcliffe and Temple Schools competed last night (Thursday Nov 20th) in this annual event that tests geographical knowledge for Years 8 -10..…
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Maya Willis-Fry (Weston College) reflects on ‘Cascading Risks’ talk
Maya Willis-Fry (Weston College) reports: Dr Katsu Goda gave an insightful lecture at the University of Bristol on Tuesday 11th November. Members of the audience were typically A-Level geography students from schools all around Bristol and North Somerset. The content…
Report from St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School on ‘Population issues in China’
by Nathan Griffin, Year 12 St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, reporting on lecture by Dr. Simon Arlidge, UWE. The lecture on the 18th of September 2014 was located at the Peel lecture theatre at the University of Bristol. The…
Students from Bristol, Trowbridge Wotton-under-Edge and Weston prepare for exams with Mark Jones (UWE)
Hepple Lecture Theatre in Geographical Sciences, Univ. of Bristol, buzzing on the 26th March 2014 with >80 students engaged in geography exam preparation, led by Mark Jones and team of PGCE facilitators from UWE. See Resources for copy of talk,…
Redland High School for Girls win Spring Competition 2014
A well-attended poster competition focussing on transport solutions for Bristol was won by Redland High School on March 4th 2014 (Report on RHS website). Thanks to all competitors, judges and facilitators for a lively, well-organised event. Report by winning team…
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Review of Spring Conference 2014 by Rebecca Williams, Red Maid’s School
‘Modelling Urban Transport’ by George Lunt, AECOM (Associate Director, Bristol Office) ‘Collective Mobility’ by Prof Graham Parkhurst (UWE, Centre for Transport Studies) ‘Student Start-ups and Sustainable Transport’ by Sam Harris (Basecamp, University of Bristol and pedalpowertransport) ‘Urban transport and Sustrans’…
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QEH team win Bristol 2013-4 Worldwise Quiz
We saw a great turn-out at Redland High School for the Quiz last term. Eighteen teams, from 10 schools across the Bristol region, battled for the title Worldwise Champions. Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School Team 1 emerged as winners in the…
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Robert Mosley, student at Monmouth School, reviews GA talk on ethnic migration
On the 12th of November the sixth form geographers at Monmouth attended a talk given by Dr Richard Harris in Bristol University. This was a greatly anticipated talk and it was aimed at people studying A-level geography along with those…
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