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Showing posts with label OS Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OS Award. Show all posts
Laura Jayne Ward - a blog to add to your reading list
Laura Jayne Ward or Leading4Geog has a very useful blog which is worth adding to your reading list. She was the recipient of the Ordnance Survey Award for excellence in secondary Geography teaching in 2018.
Check out the Leading4Geography blog.
Check out the Leading4Geography blog.
RGS-IBG Awards announced
The recipients of the 2018 Royal Geographical Society medals and awards were announced today.
As always, there are a few people of note: Paul Rose, who has led numerous expeditions and taken part in a lot of media work which has helped raise the profile of Geography is awarded the Founder's Medal. Andy Goldsworthy also receives an award for his art work which is very much meshed with the environment in which he has worked over the decades. There's also Hilary Geoghegan, who I've contacted a few times regarding cultural geography issues.
The Founder's medal has been awarded to some amazing notables in previous years, including David Attenborough, Jacques Cousteau, Freya Stark and Lady Franklin. A full list can be seen here.
Along with the academics and others who have won medals, of particular interest to me are the two teachers who will receive this year's Ordnance Survey award for excellence in secondary geography education.
This year, those teachers are Laura-Jayne Ward (who is @leading4geog on Twitter) who teaches in Coventry, and Aidan Hesslewood, a fellow member of the GA's Secondary Geography Quality Mark moderation team, and who founded the most excellent GeoLincs network and GA branch. My hearty congratulations to them both, and all those others who may have been nominated.
It's the twentieth anniversary of the OS Award, and 10 years since I was the proud recipient. Those receiving awards will have a most splendid time at the RGS in June, and be very well looked after.
As always, there are a few people of note: Paul Rose, who has led numerous expeditions and taken part in a lot of media work which has helped raise the profile of Geography is awarded the Founder's Medal. Andy Goldsworthy also receives an award for his art work which is very much meshed with the environment in which he has worked over the decades. There's also Hilary Geoghegan, who I've contacted a few times regarding cultural geography issues.
The Founder's medal has been awarded to some amazing notables in previous years, including David Attenborough, Jacques Cousteau, Freya Stark and Lady Franklin. A full list can be seen here.
Along with the academics and others who have won medals, of particular interest to me are the two teachers who will receive this year's Ordnance Survey award for excellence in secondary geography education.
This year, those teachers are Laura-Jayne Ward (who is @leading4geog on Twitter) who teaches in Coventry, and Aidan Hesslewood, a fellow member of the GA's Secondary Geography Quality Mark moderation team, and who founded the most excellent GeoLincs network and GA branch. My hearty congratulations to them both, and all those others who may have been nominated.
It's the twentieth anniversary of the OS Award, and 10 years since I was the proud recipient. Those receiving awards will have a most splendid time at the RGS in June, and be very well looked after.
RGS Awards 2014
In 2008, I was fortunate and honoured to receive the Ordnance Survey award for my geography teaching, which has been presented to fantastic colleagues before and since. I'm looking at it now, next to my desk...
This year, there are some really interesting recipients of awards, which include a Patron's Medal for Hans Rosling, and the Ness Award for Nick Crane.
There is also the Geographical Award for Jamie Buchanan Dunlop, which is great news, as he has done so much to support expedition work.
Finally, this year's winners of the OS Award are (the mighty) Simon Oakes and Elizabeth Phipson - well done indeed!
Well done to all the other award winners too of course.
Image: Alan Parkinson - 'the Boss'....
Ordnance Survey Award 2012
Congratulations to Paul Cornish who, I read today, will be receiving the Ordnance Survey Award for "excellence in secondary geography teaching" at the AGM of the Royal Geographical Society in June.
Paul is on the left here, and this will mean that all three gentlemen here will have received the award.
Which must mean that the new GA ICT Toolkits: 'Multimedia made Easy' and 'GIS Made Easy' are essential purchases....
Congratulations also to Lydia Williams who wins the other OS award.
Simon Reeve, a student favourite, will receive the Ness Award.
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