A cross-posting from the blog that covers my work as the VP of the RGS: "At the Home of Geography".
Also last Friday at the RGS - as outlined on my special RGS-linked blog, I handed a certificate to the winner of the Rex Walford Award.
Here is the blog entry that I wrote for Rex on my GA Presidents blog.
As I mentioned, Rex used to come and visit Homerton College PGCE students at my school back in the 80s and 90s. His obituary in The Guardian newspaper described him as “A teacher who made geography fun”
There was an RGS Obituary too.
He was at the heart of many GA initiatives as well as guiding the work of the RGS-IBG to support education. He came up with the project ‘Geography through the Window’ along with Ashley Kent, Worldwise Week etc. and he also supported CGeog. and other RGS-IBG work.
Each year, the winner is an ECT who is asked to produce a resource on the same theme as the Young Geographer of the Year competition. This year that was "Choose Geography".
The winner of the 2024 Rex Walford Award is Beatrice Spicer from Orleans Park School.View the details of the award on this link.
Details of the 2025 Rex Walford Award will be released in April 2025 - usually about the time of the GA Conference.
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