Online Geography Training
Ensuring Successful Subject Leadership
Tutor: David Weatherly
Cost: £125 plus VAT per delegate 9.00 am – 3.30 pm
November 6th 2023
Rationale of the day
In recent years the crucial role and expertise of the subject leader in ensuring first class
curriculum provision, effective learning and teaching and high quality pupil outcomes has
taken on an increased prominence. This day will provide a valuable and timely opportunity
for subject leaders of Geography and History in primary schools to understand all of the core
elements of leading continuous improvement in their disciplines. In so doing it will also
support colleagues and their schools in preparing for Ofsted subject ‘deep dives’. The day
will be reflective and practical providing time and space for colleagues to review their current
subject provision in the context of the training, identify priority areas for improvement and
build their capacity as middle managers to identify and lead sustainable change.
Key Objectives – all colleagues will leave the day understanding:
- The core elements of designing and implementing a high quality curriculum in
Geography and History with appropriate scope and ambition EYFS-Year 6.
- How to ensure an EYFS-Year 6 curriculum is progressive and sequenced with clear
continuity in terms of content, substantive concepts, knowledge, skills, vocabulary and
language acquisition and links to prior learning.
- Establishing high quality inclusive learning and teaching through a pedagogy of enquiry
based investigative and experiential learning which fosters disciplinary thinking.
- Approaches to effectively assessing the attainment and progress of pupils in a
manageable way against clearly defined end points of learning.
- Building effective subject monitoring and evaluation processes.
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Online Geography Training
Enhancing Cultural Diversity in
History and Geography EYFS-Year 6
Tutors: David Weatherly and Sheena Wright
Cost: £125 plus VAT per delegate 9.00 am – 3.30 pm
May 22nd 2024
Rationale of the day
Two-thirds of today’s UK babies will live to see the next century and one in three will
celebrate their 100 th birthday. At the same time the cultural mix of the communities in which
they will grow up both locally and internationally are becoming increasingly ethnically diverse.
In this context the day is a timely and valuable opportunity for colleagues to reflect upon how
their current provision and everyday practice in Geography and History supports children to
investigate beyond the familiar and build an understanding of cultural diversity, both in terms
of its historic legacy and contemporary richness within their own local communities, across
the United Kingdom and the increasingly globalised wider world.
Key elements of the day will include
- Increasing personal knowledge and understanding of the meaning and scope of the
terms culture and cultural diversity.
- Understanding the breadth of cultural diversity within Britain today.
- Considering our personal cultural heritage and ways of living as practitioners and the
influence this can have on attitudes and assumptions towards difference and diversity.
- Recognising opportunities offered by the National Curriculum in Geography and History
and the EYFS Understanding the World area of learning, to enhance cultural diversity.
- Reviewing current provision in Geography and History in the context of the above.
- Identifying approaches to enriching cultural diversity including the judicious selection of
content, community engagement and considered selection of learning and teaching
resources.
- Reviewing examples of enquiries in Geography and History that seek to recognise the
contributions and legacies of diverse cultures both over time and currently.
- How we might approach developing a secure and positive sense of a child’s own
identity and strong sense of self, in the context of their own cultural, religious or ethnic
family background.
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Online EYFS Geography Training
Introducing Geography in the Early Years
Tutors: David Weatherly and Sheena Wright
Cost: £125 plus VAT per delegate 9.00 am – 3.30 pm
November 1 st 2023
Rationale of the day
The Early Years Foundation Stage reforms to the Understanding the World educational
programme, together with the new People, Culture and Communities Early Learning Goal
have accentuated the need to establish strong and identifiable Geography provision at the
foundation stage. The day will provide timely and valuable support for EYFS and Geography
leads seeking to clarify their understanding and manage the implementation of the revised
learning and development and assessment requirements for Geography in the EYFS.
Key Objectives – all colleagues will leave the day:
- Understanding the major concepts and skills that underpin Geography teaching and
learning and how these help children make sense of the world at the foundation stage.
- Able to plan progression in geographical knowledge, understanding and subject
vocabulary.
- Knowing how to ensure curriculum continuity, sequencing, and development with Key
Stage 1 and across mixed aged classes.
- Recognising how the Characteristics of Effective Learning and links to other areas of
learning can be key drivers in developing geographical enquiry at the foundation stage.
- Having reviewed examples of learning enquiries using storytelling, talk, visits, role play
and primary sources to develop a child’s spatial awareness.
- With an extensive range of CPD materials to support the development of effective
practice amongst colleagues in their own schools and settings.
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Online Geography Training
Writing and Resourcing High Quality Enquiries EYFS-Year 6
Tutor: David Weatherly
Cost: £125 plus VAT per delegate 9.00 am – 3.30 pm
March 20th 2024
Rationale of the day
A core element of high quality provision In Geography and History is learning and teaching
which enables pupils to build substantive knowledge through the disciplinary traditions,
conventions and practice of the subjects. Creating well designed, resourced and rigorous
investigations supports pupils to know, recall and understand more as they master and apply
disciplinary knowledge through working as young geographers and historians. In this context
the day will focus on how pupils EYFS-Year 6 can be supported to develop the breadth and
depth of their substantive knowledge, in often sophisticated and nuanced ways, through
structured and guided enquiries which allow them to reach evidence based conclusions.
Key Objectives – all colleagues will leave the day:
- Confident of what disciplinary knowledge is in Geography and History.
- Understanding the constructivist paradigm of learning that underpins the
disciplinary traditions of Geography and History.
- Knowing how to design, write and resource engaging and challenging structured
and guided learning enquiries EYFS-Year 6, that avoid cognitive overload.
- Familiar with a number of learning enquiries EYFS-Year 6 that exemplify these
key aspects of design.
- Aware of the situation regarding copyright when sourcing learning materials.
- Having evaluated their current provision of learning through enquiry.
- Having identified one area of current subject content where learning might be
enhanced through developing a more explicit pedagogy of enquiry.
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