The first joint event between the Royal Geographical Society and the Geographical Association for some time took place in London earlier. It was a hot and sultry day for it and we had a good turn out at the RGS in the Education Room.
Thanks to all those people who booked on the course. It was good to meet some new folks as well as see some familiar faces. Thanks also to the speakers.
When I arrived at the event I was told there was some "good news". Instead of going on at the end of the event I was going on first as the first speaker was caught up in train cancellations.
I spoke about the different ways that careers can be embedded into the curriculum, and other support for teachers. From September 2025, the new Gatsby Benchmarks have expectations that every student in every year will have some sort of subject specific careers support as part of Benchmark #4.
I referred to Chapter 3 in my book 'Why Study Geography?' which explores this in more detail.
Juanita Shepherd then talked about the opportunities of the National Education Nature Park project.
This was followed by Mark Maslin, who gave an excellent update on Climate Change with some new images and ideas I hadn't seen before.
After coffee and a chance to network it was Fiona Sheriff who spoke on Creativity in the classroom, and lots of ideas.
Lunch came next, when I did some more chatting to people, and then we had Chloë Searl, who had just received the OS Award for Excellence at the RGS Awards at the start of the month, leading a local fieldwork session for ideas of how to use the grass. I liked the What 3 Words haiku ideas.
The day ended for me with a lecture by Martin Parham. This was an excellent lecture.
I was sorry to miss the final session from Jason Dittmer on Gibraltar as a chokepoint, and Steve Brace summing up the big picture for geography, but that meant I could escape London before the inevitable train problems which were developing.
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