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Bradfords Awards
Secondary school geography departments are invited to put themselves forward for nomination for the Bradfords Award. Cash prizes will be awarded to the winner and runners up. The purpose of the Award is to encourage and reward innovation in secondary school at geography department level, with the ultimate goal of encouraging students to continue to study geography beyond the 'compulsory years'. Awarded jointly with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
The format of the Bradfords Awards is changing... further details will be added soon.
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The purpose of the Award is to encourage and reward innovation in secondary school at geography department level, with the ultimate goal of encouraging students to continue to study geography beyond the 'compulsory years'.
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This year's first prize goes to:
Torquay Grammar School for Girls, Torquay
Second prize goes to:
Bishop Justus Church of England School, Bromley
Download: Award Citations (27k)
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| Bradfords Awards Winners 2007/08 |
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| Bradfords Award Winners 2006/07 |
Congratulations to Silverdale School, The Castle School Thornbury and Acle High School for winning prizes in this year's Bradfords Awards. Download citations below.
Download: Award Citations (25k)
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Bradfords Award Winner 2005/06 |
The 2005/06 winner of the Bradfords Award is the geography department at the Rosemary Musker High School, Norfolk. The Head of department, Penny Parry, and her team are to be congratulated.
It is a school in challenging circumstances. At the time of their entry the school was in special measures – but geography was a beacon of success, with GCSE grades 20 percentage points above the school average. The geographers were identified as a source of inspiration and advice on effective classroom practice.
And they did not have it easy – the options structure was cutting GCSE recruitment (geography was being 'strangled' in the words of their Bradfords Award submission). The department responded:
developing new teaching approaches
focusing on learning (and the needs of individual learners)
building new, fresh, colourful resources
applying for (and successfully gaining) pilot school status for the new GCSE.
Read more in the Summer 2006 issue of Teaching Geography.
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| Bradfords Award Winners 2003/04 |
The judges were very pleased with the quality of the winning submissions in the first year of these Awards.
The first prize winner, The Hewett School in Norwich, impressed us in a number of ways. The submission is clearly structured and well evidenced. It is strategic, involves the whole department, and shows how the ideas were implemented. In trying to change a culture the geography department has involved PGCE students as well as colleagues within the school and local education authority. As with the other winners, these geography teachers have sought to engage students more fully, shown the relevance of geography to day-to-day life and drawn on the students’ own experiences. They have created a more supportive environment and a sense of educational ownership for their students. Their ideas seem well embedded within the wider curriculum and have already been disseminated to other schools.
Both of the runners-up - second prize winners: Ysgol Friars, Bangor, and third prize winners: Loreto Grammar School, Altrincham - also provide excellent management strategies and teaching and learning ideas. The judges particularly liked Ysgol Friars’ comment that ‘all teachers consider how pupils learn before the content of what they deliver’, and Loreto’s ‘Around the world in 80 cakes’ from their juniors.
The full text of all three submissions was published in the Autumn 2005 issue of Teaching Geography.
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