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GA Awards - 2008 Winners
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The 2008 GA Awards were announced at the GA Annual Conference, University of Surrey, on Thursday 27 March.
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| GA Outstanding All Rounder Award |
This Award is made to a GA member who has made an outstanding contribution to the work of the Association in furthering the learning and teaching of geography.
This year's Award is made posthumously. It goes to Alan Marriott who sadly died last October. Over many years Alan made an outstanding contribution, as a former member of the GA Council, a longstanding member of the GA's Post-16 Committee and an active and much valued member of local Hull and Lincoln branches. In recent years, Alan was also involved in working on the GA's archives, a daunting task which he tackled with great skill and judgment. He is greatly missed. We are absolutely delighted that Alan's son, Daniel, has been able to join us to accept the Award on behalf of his father.
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| GA Annual Award for Excellence |
This 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:
Diane Swift for her inspiring leadership of the team responsible for implementing the Action Plan for Geography. The success of the Action Plan has, in no small measure, been the result of her efforts. Di has vision and determination, but more than this, she is relentless in her application – a desirable attribute for any teacher, and a requirement for successful project leadership. The Association – and, indeed, the whole geography community – owes her a considerable debt of gratitude. Very many thanks and congratulations, Diane!
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| GA Awards 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:
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Too Little Too Late: Responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa
Hazel R Barrett
Geography 92, 2, pp. 87-96
Whose Right? Moral issues in geography
Richard Bustin
Teaching Geography 32, 1, pp.41-44
Take Responsibility!
Sam Arnold and Jane Whittle
Primary Geographer 64, pp.12-13
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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
Coast to Coast
Greg Walker
Wildgoose, 2007
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Living in Contrasting Environments
Paula and Tony Richardson
BBC Active
Reading Our Landscapes: understanding changing geographies
Charles Rawding
Chris Kington Publishing, 2007
Highly Commended
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| Paula and Tony Richardson |
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Atlas of Wales
Gill Miller
Oxford University Press, 2007
Recycling Talk Ball
TTS Group, 2007
The Horrible Geography of the World
Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips
Scholastic, 2007
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The Frederick Soddy Awards |
Frederick Soddy Trust
GA Frederick Soddy Awards Page
The Frederick Soddy Trust wishes to encourage pupils' 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 five schools have won Frederick Soddy Awards:
St Louis Catholic Middle School, Bury St. Edmunds
Cockshut Hill Technology College, Birmingham
The City Academy, Bristol
Hannah More Primary School, Bristol
Thomas Walling Primary School, Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Bradfords Awards Area
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)
This year's first prize goes to:
Torquay Grammar School for Girls, Torquay
Second prize goes to:
Bishop Justus Church of England School, Bromley
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GA Worldwise Area
The Challenge event is the culmination of Worldwise activities for secondary schools. In April, eight invited teams, all of whose schools had taken part in the other elements of Worldwise (Online Quiz, Local Quiz and Geography Awareness Week) during 2006-7, spent a free-of-charge weekend at Malham Tarn Field Centre. The teams of three pupils from each school all took part in a broad range of enjoyable and competitive fieldwork activities.
At the end of the weekend the winners of the 2007 Worldwise Challenge Trophy were judged to be Emily Bartle, Christina Battersby and Brigid Eades from Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls.
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