GA Award Presentations 2009
Every year at our Annual Conference, we hold a GA Awards ceremony to recognise the achievements of individuals, schools and publishers during the previous year. This year's GA Awards were presented at the GA Annual Conference in Manchester on 16 April 2009.
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GA Annual Award for Excellence
This award is presented to a person who has made a significant contribution to the GA's work over the last 12 months. This year's award goes to Helen Martin for her inspiring, determined work as one of our recognised professional primary teachers. As well as being a busy headteacher, she has worked as a moderator for the Action Plan for Geography’s Primary Geography Quality Mark, is an active member of the GA’s Primary Committee and is one of the GA's Trustees. With her enthusiasm and keen perception she has helped influence the content of both the Innovating with Geography website and the forthcoming Primary Curriculum Review, with her suggested innovations being viewed by Sir Jim Rose. The Association and the geography community as a whole owes her a considerable debt of gratitude. Very many thanks and congratulations Helen.
Award for Excellence in Leading Geography
This award is presented to those articles in each of our three journals (Geography, Teaching Geography and Primary Geographer) which have made the greatest contribution to the development of good practice, as decided by a poll on the GA website.
This year's winners are:
Place: encountering geography as philosophy
Tim Creswell
Geography, 93, 3, pp.132-39
Should I stay or should I go? An enquiry investigating Polish migration to the UK
Paul Bolton
Teaching Geography, 33, 3, pp.125-32
How to bluff your way as geography co-ordinator
Annie Tauk
Primary Geographer, 65, pp.19-20
Award Citations
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GA Awards
The GA Awards are given for materials associated with geography in schools and colleges which are considered to make a significant contribution to geographical education and professional development.
This year's awards go to:
Gold
The Atlas of the Real World
Daniel Dorling, Mark Newman and Anna Barford
Thames & Hudson, 2008
Silver
Mapland Scotland
Suzanne Hills and Chris Cromey
John E Wright Ltd & Co Ltd, 2008
PowerDown
Taahra Ghazi, Polly Ghazi and Joanne Price
ActionAid, 2008
See Inside Planet Earth
Katie Daynes and Peter Allen
Usborne, 2008
Highly Commended
AS Geography for Edexcel
Bob Digby, Russell Chapman, Anna King, Catherine Hurst and Andy Owen
Oxford University Press, 2008
Digital Worlds GIS 2
Richard Pole and Jason Sawle
Digital Worlds, 2008
Made With Care: Earth Matters
David De Rothschild (Editor in Chief)
DK Publishing, 2008
Planet in Peril
Anita Ganeri
Scholastic Children's Books, 2008
Award Citations
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The Frederick Soddy Awards
Frederick Soddy Trust
GA Frederick Soddy Awards Page
The Frederick Soddy Trust wishes to encourage students' interest in field study by providing financial support. Schools often find it difficult to compete successfully for funds from the main grant-making bodies or to allocate their own financial resources to field studies. The Trust hopes to encourage field studies by providing support specifically for such work.
This year four schools won Frederick Soddy Awards:
- Parsloes Primary School, Dagenham
- Fountains High School, Burton-on-Trent
- St Andrew's CE(C) Primary School, Stafford
- Braunton School and Stoke Damerel Community College, Plymouth
Primary and Secondary Geography Quality Marks
The Primary and Secondary Quality Marks recognise quality and progress in geography leadership, curriculum development, teaching and learning. With 120 schools winning Awards in 2008-09, we are unable to list them all here, but full details are available on the Primary and Secondary Quality Mark pages.
Primary Quality Mark Gold Award
- St Peter's CP School, Winchester
- St Hugh's RC Primary School, Timperley
- Two Rivers Special School, Tamworth
Secondary Quality Mark Centre of Excellence
- Beyton Middle School, Bury St Edmunds
- Stopsley High School, Luton
- St John Fisher Catholic High School, Stoke On Trent
- Cardinal Newman Catholic School, Hove
- The High Arcal School, Dudley
- King Edward VI Five Ways School, Birmingham
- The FitzWimarc School, Rayleigh
(Updated 27.07.09)
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