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29 Aug 2024
Detailed Delve: Paper 2 AQA GCSE Geography examiner report
In this blog I am going to summarise the key points across different questions types on Paper 2. Don't forget that this year AQA have included exemplar answers with commentary highlighting good and...
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28 Aug 2024
Detailed Delve: Paper 1 AQA GCSE Geography examiner report
In this blog I am going to summarise the key points across different questions types on Paper 1. Don't forget that this year AQA have included exemplar answers with commentary highlighting good and...
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27 Aug 2024
AQA GCSE Geography examiner reports - key takeaways
In this blog I am going to highlight the key takeaways from the three examiner reports. This will be followed by three separate blogs looking at the feedback in a bit more detail for each paper.
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23 Aug 2024
Examiner feedback - it's important!
AQA are the largest awarding body for GCSE Geography, with 66% of students across the UK sitting this examination in comparison to the other exam boards. 196,235 sat the AQA specification in 2024 –...
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20 Aug 2024
A-Level Geography 2024 Results Analysis
Last summer we were told that grading would be very similar to pre-pandemic awarding - however across all subjects grades were higher. This year we have seen a grade distribution for geography...
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12 Jul 2024
A-Level Geography Induction Pack - 2024
Gearing up for the arrival of Year 12? Grab a copy of this pack of induction activities to slot into your first few lessons of the A-level Geography course. Activities include how to Think like a...
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11 Jul 2024
GCSE Geography Induction Pack - 2024
It's always tricky to know how to start the GCSE course with students - do you spend an hour relaying expectations and explaining the assessment structure and content or do you just plough straight...
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9 May 2024
Working Towards an Inclusive and Diverse KS4 (GA Conference - Lecture)
One of my favourite sessions at the GA Conference was Vice President Hina Robinson's brilliant session on increasing the inclusivity and diversity of our GCSE curriculums. She is a Rights...
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8 May 2024
2024 GA Conference Resources Online
If you’ve never been to the Geographical Association's annual conference, it’s a wonderful two or three days of CPD in university facilities and, of course, outdoors. It’s also a great opportunity...
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2 May 2024
Geography for Everyone - (GA Conference 2024 - Presidential Lecture)
This theme of this year's GA conference was 'Geography for Everyone' - and GA president Denise Freeman delivered an amazing lecture on Friday morning outlining just what that meant, and how we can...
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29 Apr 2024
Manchester's Northern Quarter - Organic Gentrification (GA Conference 2024 - Field Visit)
For many delegates this year's GA conference kicked off with a superb tour around the Northern Quarter of Manchester, looking at how gentrification has transformed many parts of the city over the...
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26 Feb 2024
The end of the line for HS2. What next?
We all know that the infrastructure improvements section of Changing Economic World at GCSE is getting harder to teach with the textbook examples hugely out-of-date or never went ahead. In the last...
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25 Jan 2024
Climate Change - Building Resilience with Education and Flood Defence
This World Bank video clip looks at how the organisation has helped make the provision of education more resilient, with schools increasingly designed to withstand extreme weather incidents. This...
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23 Jan 2024
Hopeful Geographies 4: Women in Data & Women's Health
Data is the lifeblood of geography at A-level. I have to confess to a girl crush on @_HannahRitchie who is Deputy Editor of Our World in Data and if you’re not following her Substack can I suggest...
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17 Jan 2024
Hopeful Geographies 3: Signs of Transition in Britain’s Electricity Supply
At A-Level we are asked to consider thresholds or tipping points in Earth's systems. We are used to talking about thresholds in terms of climate change, such as accelerating ice melt and positive...
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10 Jan 2024
Hopeful Geographies 2: ‘Joined Up’ Conservation Works in Southern Africa
Last week The Guardian reported that African elephant populations in southern Africa have stabilised after many decades of decline. Further, the science shows elephant populations able to migrate...
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8 Jan 2024
2023 - A Year of Extreme Weather
Most of us started back at work today - and much of that 'Christmas holiday chat' will have focused on the state of the weather over the two week break. I live in Buxton so am no stranger to...
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2 Jan 2024
Hopeful Geographies in 2024
Happy New Year to you and all your students. And in the Geography Department, in 2024, I think us teachers ought to mean it. In an excellent opening lecture at last year’s GA conference Jenny...
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11 Dec 2023
How the Climate Crisis Could Impact Health Locally and Globally
Last week the health impact of global environmental change was in the headlines as officials met to discuss the issue at COP28 in Dubai - a COP first. This week the story has become a local one,...
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14 Nov 2023
COP28 Teaching Activities: Three Carbon News Stories and How to Use Them
Three recent news stories about the carbon budget and climate have caught my eye. Spoiler-alert: one story features a Pacific 'island paradise'. All are useful hooks to promote students'...
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