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RGS-IBG Rex Walford Award Competition 2025

on April 05, 2025

Competition ECT Islands Rex Walford Award RGS-IBG Scheme of Work Understanding Islands YGOTY + Young Geographer of the Year

Competition ECT Islands Rex Walford Award RGS-IBG Scheme of Work Understanding Islands YGOTY Young Geographer of the Year

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Young Geographer of the Year 2025

on April 04, 2025

Competitions Islands YGOTY YGOTY25 + Young Geographer of the Year

Competitions Islands YGOTY YGOTY25 Young Geographer of the Year

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GA Trustee roles - why not put yourself forward for election?

on April 04, 2025

GA Governing Body GA Trustees Geographical Association + Governing Body

GA Governing Body GA Trustees Geographical Association Governing Body

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Dad's gone to Iceland

on April 01, 2025

Iceland Rayburn Tours Reykjanes Peninsula + Volcanic Eruption

Iceland Rayburn Tours Reykjanes Peninsula Volcanic Eruption

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"It's not fair!"

on April 01, 2025

Fairness Fairness Foundation Fairness Index Inequality + Will Snell

Fairness Fairness Foundation Fairness Index Inequality Will Snell

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Carbon - a different approach

on April 01, 2025

Carbon Carbon Reduction Climate Change + Net Zero

Carbon Carbon Reduction Climate Change Net Zero

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Large earthquake in Myanmar

on March 28, 2025

Earthquake Myanmar +0 Thailand

Earthquake Myanmar Thailand

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Careers in Geography

on March 28, 2025

Careers Careers in Geography GTAV +1 RGS-IBG Simon Kuestenmacher Teachmeet Videos

Careers Careers in Geography GTAV RGS-IBG Simon Kuestenmacher Teachmeet Videos

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An Alternative A-Z of Empire

on March 28, 2025

Art British Empire Colonialism +2 Decolonising Geography Empire Norwich Norwich Castle Singh Twins

Art British Empire Colonialism Decolonising Geography Empire Norwich Norwich Castle Singh Twins

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RGS Careers Webinar - 18th of September

on March 27, 2025

Careers CGeog CPD Embedding Careers into your teaching RGS-IBG + Webinar

Careers CGeog CPD Embedding Careers into your teaching RGS-IBG Webinar

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Sport and Soft Power

on March 27, 2025

Global Globalisation Power Soft Power + Sport

Global Globalisation Power Soft Power Sport

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Who wants to be a Flickr millionaire...

on March 27, 2025

.Photographs Flickr Images LivingGeography Photography + Sharing

.Photographs Flickr Images LivingGeography Photography Sharing

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Place names matter

on March 27, 2025

Denali Greenland Gulf of Mexico +4 Identity Indigenous Peoples Place Place Names Politics Power USA

Denali Greenland Gulf of Mexico Identity Indigenous Peoples Place Place Names Politics Power USA

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Feedspot Top 40 Blog

on March 27, 2025

Awards Blogging Cultcha Feedspot + LivingGeography

Awards Blogging Cultcha Feedspot LivingGeography

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Worldly Wednesday #26: RGS Teachmeet and thinking time

on March 26, 2025

BBC Careers +7 Curriculum and Assessment GeoDem AI Interim Report Meetings Newsletter Review RGS-IBG Substack Teachmeet Worldly Wednesdays Zoom

BBC Careers Curriculum and Assessment GeoDem AI Interim Report Meetings Newsletter Review RGS-IBG Substack Teachmeet Worldly Wednesdays Zoom

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Families like ours

on March 26, 2025

Climate Breakdown Denmark +1 Families like ours Thomas Vinterberg TV TV series

Climate Breakdown Denmark Families like ours Thomas Vinterberg TV TV series

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Author copies of new iGCSE Textbook now arrived

on March 26, 2025

Cambridge Cambridge iGCSE Collins iGCSE Geography iGCSE Textbook + Textbook

Cambridge Cambridge iGCSE Collins iGCSE Geography iGCSE Textbook Textbook

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The loss of Gardi Sugdub

on March 26, 2025

BBC World Climate refugees +4 Community Documentaries Gardi Sugdub Guna Guna Yula Identity Panama Sense of Place

BBC World Climate refugees Community Documentaries Gardi Sugdub Guna Guna Yula Identity Panama Sense of Place

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Calling Scottish Geography Teachers...

on March 25, 2025

Geography Royal Jo Sharp +3 Royal Scottish Geographical Society RSGS Scotland Scottish Geography Survey

Geography Royal Jo Sharp Royal Scottish Geographical Society RSGS Scotland Scottish Geography Survey

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2025

Oak Academy reviewing, plus textbook, curriculum & resource writing until at least Autumn 2025

April

2-3: Iceland: Rayburn FST

4: GeoNight Talk on Iceland - online - 7pm

7-10: Fieldtrips - Paris

16: GA Conference - Oxford Brookes University

19: Yann Tiersen - Barbican

22: INSET

23: Samantha Harvey - Orbital - Cambridge Literary Festival

May

7: Pearson Advisory Panel (Online)

14: Buckingham Palace event

June

2: RGS AGM and Awards

12: Fieldtrip - Hunstanton

16: RGS Festival of Geography - I hope to see you there!

23: RGS Council Meeting

24: PGQM Moderation Meeting 1

Homerton College - TBC

July

3: UCL Mentors' Conference on Teacher Creativity

Summer

PGQM/SGQM Moderation

23: SGQM Moderation Meeting 1 & PGQM Moderation Meeting 2

Writing and Fieldtrips to Devon/London etc.

August

27: SGQM Moderation Meeting 1

28-29: INSET

September

18: Embedding careers education into your teaching - RGS Webinar - 5pm - now available to book

October

1: Sigur Ros - RAH

6: RGS Council

14: RGS Education Committee - RGS-IBG

December

1: RGS Council

5: RGS YGOTY

2026

July

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