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Welcome to the GA’s online programme for the Annual Conference and Exhibition 2025! Take some time to explore the programme and build a personalised schedule using the full list below, or find the best sessions for you using the filter options. Keep an eye on this programme for updates and to interact with other delegates, exhibitors and sponsors. For more information on the Conference, see the GA website.

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Wednesday, April 16
 

9:00am PDT

Taking the learning outside: connecting geography and wellbeing
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
207
This workshop will adopt a holistic approach in exploring the connections between outdoor learning and children's well-being. Moving beyond standard enquiry-led fieldwork approaches, we'll consider which types of learning activities are most enhanced by 'taking the learning outside', and discuss practical and creative strategies for incorporating outdoor learning across the primary geography curriculum.
Speakers
JT

Julia Tanner

Consultant, trainer, author, Julia Tanner Consultancy
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
207 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Primary

9:00am PDT

Satellite data to support learning
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
203
It's easier than ever before to obtain free satellite data for use in your classroom, promoting discussion among younger pupils and analysis from older students. This workshop will introduce a range of sources and support you in using them to explore the possibilities they provide.
Speakers
CF

Catherine Fitzsimons

Outreach officer, National Centre for Earth Observation
RM
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
203 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Secondary

9:00am PDT

Make sure you're connected: how can we connect GIS with the National Curriculum?
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
Chakrabarti room
Following recent concerns about a lack of GIS in the curriculum (e.g. Ofsted 2023), this session will offer suggestions on connecting GIS and other geospatial learning to its rightful place in the curriculum based on many years of ongoing classroom practice. The session will consider curriculum sequencing, progression and endpoints for school-based GIS.
Speakers
avatar for Brendan Conway

Brendan Conway

Teacher of Geography, Notre Dame Senior School
I have over thirty years’ experience as geography teacher, head of department and pastoral lead in three maintained schools and one independent school. I led my current department to become a Geographical Association Centre of Excellence.I am an author of a range of geographical... Read More →
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am PDT
Chakrabarti room Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Subject knowledge

11:30am PDT

Living cities: connecting young people to nature in their home town
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
201
Nature has always been crucial for thriving cities, but our relationship with it has changed as we've urbanised. We need to re-connect to nature for sustainable futures. Living cities, a module of UCL-IOE's free Teaching for sustainable futures CPD programme, explores how geography and history teaching can help do this.
Speakers
DM

David Mitchell

Associate Professor, UCL-IOE
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
201 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Cross phase

11:30am PDT

Elemental geographical thinking and learning with a dynamic world
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
207
The four elements – water, air, fire and earth – are materials and energies that comprise and connect the world around us and shape physical and human interactions between places and peoples. This workshop explores how geography is elemental, how elements connect life in literal and lyrical ways and embeds a fifth element – imagination – to activate rich geographical curriculum thinking.
Speakers
DH

Dr Helen Clarke

Independent Scholar / Consultant, Attention2Place
SW
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
207 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Primary

11:30am PDT

Powerful resources: cross-curricular climate change strategies, initiatives and resources
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
205
This session will look at strategies exploring 'powerful resources', i.e. artefacts, images and resources that are resonant and meaningful, working across curriculum areas to not only create dialogue across departments but demonstrate to students that climate change and sustainability affects all academic areas and requires a holistic understanding of the issue, its challenges and its solutions. Participants will be given resources to distribute in their schools across departments.
Speakers
DA

Dr Andrew Lee

Associate Fellow Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, UCL-IOE
Wednesday April 16, 2025 11:30am - 12:20pm PDT
205 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Subject knowledge

12:30pm PDT

Understanding how our migration creates communities
Wednesday April 16, 2025 12:30pm - 12:55pm PDT
205
This session will explore how children can use their own migration stories to develop an understanding of their connections to the school community. Reflections on an enquiry project of 'life as a migrant' will be shared with other teachers to encourage more student voices in the wider community.
Speakers
BH

Briley Habib

Geography teacher, Markham College
Wednesday April 16, 2025 12:30pm - 12:55pm PDT
205 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Cross phase

2:00pm PDT

Connecting children to 'their' geography
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
207
Early Years and primary teachers know that connecting children to their locality is important. So what tools can you use? Anthony will share free data sources online to connect to locations in the UK and beyond. Participants will come and share their own free web resources, and we'll use simple data on how Oxford compares with the various locations attendees are from.
Speakers
AB

Anthony Barlow

Principal Lecturer, University of Roehampton
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
207 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Primary

2:00pm PDT

Seamless geography: enhancing primary to secondary transition beyond the prescriptive curriculum
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Executive suite
Progression should be deepening and developing geographical understanding, not just acquiring more facts. How do we decide what 'making progress' is and what it looks like across the different stages of education? This is a practical workshop learning from schools across Wales to develop approaches for connecting primary and secondary geography education.
Speakers
FR

Fiona Rennie

Special interest group Wales
AT
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:00pm - 2:50pm PDT
Executive suite Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Secondary

3:00pm PDT

Look up: teaching local geography and history through a different lens
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
204
How can we develop children's understanding of their locality, connecting geography and history, through looking up?
Speakers
avatar for Dr Kate Glanville

Dr Kate Glanville

Senior Lecturer in Primary Geography, Birmingham City University
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
204 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Primary

3:30pm PDT

The water cycle: back to basics
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm PDT
JHB lecture theatre
We look again at the water cycle, including: how to draw a cloud; how to make a cloud; popular misconceptions we've discovered from our climate literacy survey; the water cycle and climate change; cloud seeding and conspiracy theories; contrails (and chemtrails) and climate change; and changes to the oceans and cryosphere.
Speakers
avatar for Prof Sylvia Knight

Prof Sylvia Knight

Head of Education, Royal Meteorological Society
Sylvia Knight is Head of Education at the Royal Meteorological Society and a visiting Professor in the schools of Education and of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences at the University of Reading. With a background in climate science, her role involves supporting the... Read More →
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm PDT
JHB lecture theatre Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Cross phase

3:30pm PDT

Building connections with the Migration Museum
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm PDT
Executive suite
Join the Migration Museum's award-winning learning team to explore how migration and intersecting themes can help your pupils build connections between themselves, their local communities and their sense of national identity. Learn tried and tested approaches to engage and inspire your pupils, and build your own confidence in navigating complex topics.
Speakers
LM

Liberty Melly

Head of Learning, Migration Museum
TS

Tia Shah

Learning Officer, Migration Museum
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm PDT
Executive suite Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Primary

3:30pm PDT

Let's connect: a curriculum jigsaw
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm PDT
207
The session will explore how and why a high quality geography curriculum is more than just the sum of its parts. It will model how to embrace the interdependent nature of substantive, disciplinary and procedural knowledge. It also considers the role that creating and monitoring meaningful connections between those constituent parts has in empowering pupils to access, interpret and accumulate knowledge.
Speakers
JC

Jon Cannell

Primary Curriculum Lead GA, Geographical Association
Wednesday April 16, 2025 3:30pm - 4:20pm PDT
207 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Primary

4:20pm PDT

How can we connect pupils to climate change on their doorstep?
Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
Chakrabarti room
Climate change can often feel distant and abstract to our students; how can we make it more tangible and relevant? Using local places to build connectivity and empowerment? Building connections to far places while representing them in a just way? This lecture leans on evidence about climate change education and geography-curriculum-making to consider how we can use place to support our students' understanding of the climate emergency.
Speakers
MM

Michelle Minton

Geography Curriculum Lead, Climate Adapted Pathways for Education (CAPE)
Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
Chakrabarti room Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Cross phase

4:20pm PDT

Developing global connections: bringing the outside world in
Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
207
This workshop will explore how we can make international connections from our classrooms and through travel. We'll consider how barriers to carrying out international fieldwork can be overcome, and discuss issues related to sustainable travel. Practical activities will include using resources from GA Study Tours, discussing fieldwork scenarios and evaluating the sustainability of travel for learning.
Speakers
CO

Catherine Owen

Chair of International Special Interest Group
AC

Amy Case

Head of Geography, Latymer Upper School
Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:20pm - 5:10pm PDT
207 Oxford Brookes University,Headington Rd, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
  Fieldwork
 
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