Committee memmbers, Layla Bray and Janet Neil reflect on their trip to 2025 GA Annual Conference at Oxford Brookes on behalf of the Bristol GA Committee.. Layla Bray (Trinity Academy, Bristol) reports on Day One: 15th April 2025 Attending the …
Feedback from the GA Annual Conference at Oxford Brookes Read more »
Teacher CPD event: 4th June 2025 The redevelopment of land in the Bristol city centre, from the ‘Western Harbour’ (proposed) to Temple Quarter (major project underway), provides a valuable case study for geography students. They can investigate the different approaches …
Scoping Temple Quarter and Finzels Reach Bristol for NEA work Read more »
Congratulations to everyone who made this year’s Worldwise Quiz (Nov 13th 2024) such a success. Once again, we saw plenty of teams from the region come together to test their geographical knowledge at the University of Bristol. Schools from north …
#2 A successful bid to Sheila Jones Fund for networking support Sheila Jones was instrumental in the success of our Bristol Branch (and the national GA) for many years. Bristol was where most of her geography was done, as a …
Catching up with posts, post-summer: #2 Sheila Jones Fund Read more »
With the 2024-25 Bristol GA season about to start, I provide details on successful summer activities that should have been reported much earlier…. #1. CPD session on urban regeneration at Bristol Temple Quarter (images by Harry West, David Richards) We …
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The gauntlet had been thrown late in 2023, and after the successful GlosGeog WWQ event in late February 2024 we knew which teams from would compete for the Worldwise Bristol v Gloucester Challenge. GlosGeog winners from Denmark Road High School …
Fairfield win the inaugural Bristol v Gloucester Worldwise Challenge Read more »
On Feb 8th 2024, Dr Harry West, Bristol GA committee member, and senior lecturer at UWE, provided insightful advice on how to engage students at both school and higher education settings with geolocated data. This was a twilight CPD event …
Harry West offers advice on use of ArcGIS Survey123 in the class/field Read more »
Monday 22nd January – evening workshop on Exploring Pedagogy, Antiracism and Decolonial Geography It was a great pleasure to host Iram Sammer at the University of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences for a networking and CPD event for local teachers. …
Wow! What fun! Fairfield worthy Worldwise winners. “I was very excited to attend the WorldWise Quiz for the first time and to leave with the trophy was a bonus! We hope Fairfield will defend the title in the future. We …
It has been a while since Bristol GA has posted reports. We saw a variety of events from Dec ’22 to March ’23: A lecture, teacher training, competition for sixth-formers, and exam preparation session – all extremely well received. See …