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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Drawing inspiration from Local by Alastair Humphreys, and with an emphasis on divisions of space and place, this field visit will show a range of techniques teachers can use to explore any single grid square close to their school. There will be two concurrent strands to the field visit, with separate activities highlighted for primary and secondary students.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This workshop explores how teachers can use what's familiar to children to help them gain a deeper understanding of the wider world. It will provide a variety of teaching ideas to help children make connections to gain knowledge of 'space' and 'place' between EY and KS2, as well as time to share and develop current practice.
Young people are important citizens, shaped by the geographies around them and with the power to shape those geographies – but do they recognise this? The fieldwork ideas shared here help pupils recognise the connections that exist in our world and draw on cross-curricular links to show how their lives and local area are connected to these wider geographies.
On 17 April, make your way to the conference social space to meet other primary colleagues. The primary pit stop will be available all day as part of our primary pathway. Hosted by the GA Early Years and Primary Phase Committee.
Join this lively workshop of practical activities that celebrate place perspectives that are surprising, serendipitous, miniature and unusual. Inspired by local landscapes, accompanied by quizzical mice, we seek to foster curiosity through a series of geographical enquiries. This workshop encourages learners to slow down, observe, explore and notice detail, recognising change and finding fascination in places of repair and transformation.
Enquiry approaches in geography lessons engage pupils, but aligning these approaches to curriculum requirements can be a challenge. In this session, we'll share enquiry approaches using examples from a range of schools and phases; participants will have the opportunity to share their own practices and will be provided with frameworks, examples and actions for embedding enquiry in their own schools.
