Saturday, 13 December 2025

Updated Presidents image

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Every year, I need to update the word cloud of previous Presidents. Here's the latest version, made with WordArt.

Geography and the Creation

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There's an interesting 'dilemma' for some teachers who have a religious belief, when teaching about the origins of the Earth and...

50 years of 'Teaching Geography'

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The final episode of GeogPod for 2025 (and the 96th in total) is out now on your preferred podcast platform. In another special episode to r...
Thursday, 11 December 2025

PTI Geography Symposium - July 2026

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News of an exciting joint event that's being organised jointly between the Prince's Teaching Institute, the RGS and the GA. It's...
Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Your views on teaching geography...

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Your views are needed by Dr Susan Pike and her fellow researchers. Details below and scan the QR code to find out more.
Thursday, 27 November 2025

25% Discount in the GA Shop

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The Budget may have impacted your spending plans, but here's something to enjoy. The GA has brought some Christmas cheer with our end of...
Monday, 24 November 2025

Coastcraft in use

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Good to see the Coastcraft game that I helped create educational materials for (on behalf of the GA) was featured on ITV regional news. Tha...

Headache relief from the GA's SPC

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I served on the GA’s Secondary Phase Committee for over 10 years, joining in 2004 and learning from a whole range of people from previous e...
Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Musical Geographies at the GA Conference 2026

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So Matt Podbury and I are putting the band back together...   Our session at the GA Conference 2026 has been accepted and we've teamed ...

Curriculum and Assessment Review - the report and DfE response

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We finally have the outcome of the Curriculum and Assessment Review with the publication of the final report  today. Many thousands of educa...

Green Skills Report from the GA

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A new report from the Geographical Association in time for Green Careers week. Geography shapes who we are, how we view the world and how we...
Wednesday, 15 October 2025

What facts shall we teach?

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 A nice article in an early edition of ' The Geographical Teacher' from 1918.... As we wait for the report of the Curriculum and Ass...

The Hopkin Review of School Geography 1991-2023

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A new research report has been published today by the Geographical Association.  Thanks to Steve Brace for sending me a copy. It has been wr...
Friday, 3 October 2025

Coastcraft - now out and ready to play...

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This is a project which I worked on through 2024 and into 2025. It's finally out there for you to download and play.  And we can finally...
Monday, 29 September 2025

Christine Speak RIP

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In this blog, I have tried to feature people who may not have had the same public profile as others, but who in their own way were particula...