The latest entry from my PGCE Main Method folder from my PGCE in 1986-7 refers to the field trip that we took to York quite early on in the course, sometime in October I think from memory.This was an interesting day. I had no car at the time - in fact I didn't get a car until I got my first full time job down in King's Lynn and realised that I could no longer rely on the trains that I had been used to when I lived up in Yorkshire where public transport was cheap and plentiful and well connected. Norfolk was not quite like that. I had to quickly learn to drive - I did that within two months - about 10 lessons and passed my test first time - and then took out a loan to buy a very nice white Citroen BX which was a good car with its hydro-pneumatic suspension. It served me well before I replaced it with a burgundy Xantia.
I got a lift there from a student who did have a car, along with a few other teachers who were on the course with me, including Dave Hardy, who I stayed in touch with for quite a while.
We were given the job of following a route in a town trail and thinking about how we would use that and also consider the potential of the city for a geography fieldtrip. We then had to write a report on the
York Field Trip 1986 by GeoBlogs on Scribd
I did some digging about the authors of the guide that we had used, who were named on the front. They were also mentioned in 'Geography' in 1975, so this was perhaps draft version that we used. We were paired with History PGCE students and did some joint investigation of the city.
At the time, a friend of mine was at York University, so I stayed in York before getting the train back to Hull - the impressive Paragon Station - the following day - the trip was on a Friday from memory.
The other aspect of that day that was memorable was that it was the day when we found out our teaching placement schools, and I discovered I would be spending the Spring Term of 1987 at Bransholme School in East Hull. More on that is in my Presidential lecture and post on the blog.
Source
“The Geographical Association.” Geography, vol. 60, no. 4, 1975, pp. 311–22. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41415055. Accessed 24 Sept. 2023.
Image of York Minster: Alan Parkinson, shared under CC license
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