One aspiration of the developers of the Pilot GCSE was that the specification should re-ignite teacher creativity.
The Pilot was intended to offer opportunities for curriculum development for post-14 candidates. The Rivendell Working Group took up this challenge.
For the last two years Graham Senior has organised an informal gathering of centres involved in the Pilot to engage in collaborative curriculum development. The group became known as the Rivendell Working Group - after the centre in Yorkshire where it met. At the first meeting, Graham, Louise Moir (Deacons School), Jane Girlow (Hugh Christie Technology College), Amber Strathdee, Phil Wood (Deepings School) and Rhys Guthrie, developed outline plans for the core themes. These can be downloaded as follows:
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This issue focuses on refreshing the primary curriculum, offering advice on planning for integrated learning and using the concept of place as a focus. It also includes examples of how three schools have successfully combined art with geography.
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The Summer issue, which focuses on young people’s geographies, discusses how we can use students’ personal experiences to help make a geography curriculum which is meaningful and relevant to their everyday lives.
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This issue features a series of articles that attempt to demonstrate the value of a geographical perspective in facing up to the current global food crisis. Article topics include the EU sugar reform and its effects on Caribbean producers, aquaculture in Thailand, and the obesity 'epidemic'. The issue also features a Spotlight On article on the URBAN EARTH project.
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