GA Magazine 90

The latest edition of the GA Magazine is now available to download from the GA website (you need to log in first...)This is a particularly good issue, but then I have to declare an interest: I edited the issue, along with David Rayner.
In addition to the usual features, such as a particularly good Webwatch, there are some feature pieces on the concept of INTERDEPENDENCE.

The middle section was the bit I edited.
Highlights of the issue include:
  • "Thinking inside the box": an article on the BBC 'box' project by me
  • "Connecting Classrooms": an article by Graham Goldup on a project to develop a school link with Arusha, Tanzania & Brighton schools
  • "Windwards Revisited": an article by Martin Crabbe on the ongoing links that he has maintained following a trip to the Windward Islands in 2005
  • "Interdependence Day": a summary of the report by Joe Smith of the Open University
  • "Food glorious food - but for how much longer ?": an article by me on a TDA CPD unit that I'm writing - contrary to what it says in the magazine it's not quite finished yet....
  • "Cheap food and global interdependence" by Peter Jackson of the University of Sheffield
  • "Into Africa" - Emma Cook talking about her toolkit book
  • "A Thorny Issue" - Louise Ellis talking about her toolkit book
There is also an outline on A DIFFERENT VIEW: the Manifesto for school geography which will be launched at the GA Conference.

Thanks in particular to David Rayner, Graham Goldup, Joe Smith, Peter Jackson, Martin Crabbe, Louise Ellis and Emma Cook

The magazine also features some of the prize winning entries from the STORY COMPETITION that the GA held recently.
In the autumn term we announced our Geography and Story Competition, part of the GA's contribution to the National Year of Reading. The response was fantastic, and we were flooded with hundreds of entries from schools across the UK. The students' enthusiasm for their favourite places really shone through, and the range of locations written about was incredibly varied. We were also impressed with the levels of creativity, both in terms of the content and the appearance of the submissions.

With such an array of entries choosing winners was no mean feat, and it took weeks to narrow it down to the final few. We got there in the end however, and are now delighted to announce the winning entry in each category:

5-7 Winner
Gaurav Sunner, Age 6, Cawston Grange Primary School, Rugby
'My Birthday Treat to London'


8-11 Winner
Matilda Smith, Age 10, Orton Wistow Primary School, Peterborough
'Another Place'


11-16 Winner
Zoƫ Reed Sanderson, Age 11, Headington School, Oxford
'On the Banks of the OgoouƩ River'

A PDF of the winning entries can be downloaded.

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