Photos from first lecture of the GA 2016-7 season (27th Sept 2016). Dr. Chris Spencer considers the dynamics of coastal sedimentation on the spit at Dawlish Warren, River Exe estuary, SW England. He takes advantage of undergraduate transect surveys either …
Coastal Management: Dawlish Warren – Chris Spencer (UWE) Read more »
Report by Janet Neil, Redland High School, Bristol The summer conference ran by Garry Atterton and Mark Jones is a great way to refresh and update your case study knowledge, meet colleagues and network to gain new knowledge yourself at …
Congratulations to the teams representing Bristol and Bath in this week’s Worldwise Quiz final. Four teams competed in the grand setting of the Old Council Chamber, University of Bristol. A closely fought contest included rounds on Japan, Geography in the …
Slides from the three speakers can be found in Resources.
On Wednesday 25 November 2015, the Bath Geographical Association Worldwise Quiz took place again in the beautiful Elwin room at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute. Four schools, Beechen Cliff, King Edwards, Wellsway and Writhlington entered nine teams between …
Report compiled by: Ethan Hetherington, Josh Hoare-Matthews, Alex Harper and Josh Lorriman students at Weston College At the end of last term, we attended the 3rd in a series of Geographical Association lectures at the University of Bristol in the …
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Redland High School played host to the Worldwise Quiz 2015 on Thursday Nov 20th. Eleven teams from Red Maids’, Bristol Grammar, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Redland High, St Mary Redcliffe and Temple Schools and Ashton Park competed in this annual event …
On November 18th 2015, Bristol Grammar School took two teams to Redland High School for the annual Worldwise Geography Quiz. One team was made up of three year 10 students, their first time doing the quiz, and the year 11 …
Sam Pearson of Bristol Grammar School (Year 11) reports on win at WWQ Read more »
The most recent GA session (11th November 2015) ‘Congo’s Curse: Unearthing the link between Natural Resources and Violent Conflict‘ was both informative and thought-provoking, leaving the audience enlightened about the motivations of armed groups, the causes of the resource conflict …
Calum James (St. Mary Redcliffe and Temple School) reports. The most recent GA session was enlightening, not only because of the lecture by Alan Terry on ‘Improving the quality of water resources in Uganda’, but also because of the information …
Calum James, St. Mary Redcliffe, on first session in GA Autumn programme Read more »