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GA Awards - 2007 Winners
The following people, publishers and schools received awards recognising their various contributions to geography:
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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 goes to:
Rachel Bowles, for her quiet work over many years: on the Register of Research in Primary Geography, contributions to Primary Geographer, books in the Primary Guidance series, long membership of the GA's Primary Committee and willing help with sessions and advice for primary delegates at GA and other events throughout the country. Thanks Rachel!
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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:
David Balderstone, for steering through to publication the magnificently comprehensive and inspirational new Secondary Geography Handbook, winner of the 2006 SAGT Gold Award. Quite an achievement, David!
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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:
(Un)popular Culture and Citizenship: Mapping illicit drug-using in Trainspotting
Judy Hemingway
Geography 91, 2, pp. 141-49
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Worldmapper: the world as you've never seen it before
Anna Barford and Danny Dorling
Teaching Geography 32, 1, pp. 68-75
Eco-warriors take a learning journey
Helen Martin and Claire Davis
Primary Geographer 60, pp. 7-9
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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.
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This year's awards go to:
Gold
Mapping Our World
Oxfam GB/Complete Control, 2006
www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/mappingourworld
Silver
Teaching Geography in Primary Schools
By Fran Martin
Chris Kington Publishing, 2006
Where We Live: Our place in the world
By Rhondda Cynon Taf Borough Council
Field Studies Council, 2005
Highly Commended
Chembakolli: Life and change in an Indian village
ActionAid, 2006
www.chembakolli.com
Discovering Antarctica
RGS-IBG, FCO and BAS, 2006
www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk
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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.
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This year four schools have won Frederick Soddy Awards:
Hannah More Primary School, Bristol
Hampton School, Hampton jointly with Kingston University
Thomas Walling Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne
St Louis Catholic Middle School, Bury St Edmunds
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GA Worldwise Area
2007 Worldwise Challenge Winners
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 2005-6, 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.
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At the end of the weekend the winners of the 2006 Worldwise Challenge Trophy were judged to be Fiona Campbell, Alex Mobbs and Jamie Pow from Wallace High School, Lisburn, N.Ireland.
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Find out about past GA Award winners on the Previous Winners page.
(Updated 27.04.07) |
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