All Geography articles
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School Travel Awards
Our awards prize money paid for an exciting rainforest visit
Winchmore School in Enfield took a group to the Living Rainforest with their School Trip Champion prize money.
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Features
Zipping, bouncing and learning in historic mines and quarries
There were surprises above and below ground as Rob Yandell was thrown off things, down things and around things at three of Zip World’s sites in North Wales.
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Features
5 Geography school trip ideas to help students make sense of the world
We’ve researched ideas of where to go on your next visit to enhance geography studies and how to give context to the subject.
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Features
Field Studies Council: celebrating 80 years and 3.7 million student visits
The UK’s leading environmental education charity is celebrating its 80th anniversary having welcomed more than 3.7 million students through its doors.
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News & Ideas
Government report shows impact of fieldwork skills on geography students
The report suggests that practical fieldwork skills that pupils learn during outdoor learning experiences greatly improve their geography studies, with more young people than before choosing the subject for their GCSEs and beyond.
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Sponsored
LEGOLAND’s 2024 workshops bring maths, computing and science to life
There’s lots in store for schools visiting the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort in 2024 including a new workshop encouraging learning through playful problem solving.
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Features
Case study: exploring the past at Wordsworth Grasmere
Education development manager at Wordsworth Grasmere in Cumbria, Zoe McLain, reports back from a school visit they hosted for Seaton Academy.
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News & Ideas
Activity packs and teacher guides for BBC Earth Experience
The BBC Earth Experience in London invites pupils to go around the world in an hour, exploring the inhabitants of our seven continents, with the help of Sir David Attenborough.
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News & Ideas
Digital ‘treasure trove’ helps pupils get back outdoors
The Field Studies Council has launched a Digital Hub to support secondary school teachers and students with the fieldwork element of geography and biology.
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News & Ideas
RSPB Minsmere outdoor learning experiences ‘bursting with exciting nature spectacles’
RSPB Minsmere on the Suffolk coast is inviting schools to discover the natural environment in hands-on sessions, as the nature reserve marks its 75th anniversary.
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News & Ideas
Exclusive school visits on offer at Saffron Walden Museum
Saffron Walden Museum in Essex is offering schools exclusive access on Tuesdays when the museum is closed to the public, so pupils can make the most of their learning experience.
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News & Ideas
Museum of East Anglian Life to relaunch as National Museum of Food
The Museum of East Anglian Life in Suffolk will become a multi-sensory attraction, helping children to understand where food comes from and the impact of our choices past, present and future.
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News & Ideas
Windermere Lake Cruises gearing up for busy autumn and winter season
Ashurst Primary School pupils from St Helens in Merseyside were the latest to enjoy a lesson on England’s longest lake, as Windermere Lake Cruises expects a much busier autumn and winter season following the pandemic.
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News & Ideas
Students face missing out on valuable experiences if plans to scrap fieldwork go ahead
There are warnings that if proposals to scrap fieldwork from GCSE and A-Level exams for another year go ahead, pupils will miss out on experiences and opportunities.
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News & Ideas
Rayburn Tours launches more UK school trips for 2021
Rayburn Tours aims to rebuild schools’ confidence to travel again with its new UK trips, giving students the chance to stay closer to home while still getting the benefit of an educational visit.
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Interview
Interview: Steve Brace on teaching Geography away from the classroom
The head of education and outdoor learning at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) talks about a renaissance of the subject and the impact of school trips and fieldwork.
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News & Ideas
Urban Geography course to coincide with 2022 Commonwealth Games
The Field Studies Council (FSC) has launched a new course in Birmingham, to coincide with the city’s regeneration project ahead of the games.
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News & Ideas
Climate change residential launching for Key Stage 5 students
Based at FSC Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae in Scotland, the latest course from the Field Studies Council is aimed at pupils in higher education.
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News & Ideas
TV presenter Iain Stewart urges Geography teachers to become storytellers
The professor encouraged teachers to push the ‘wonder’ of the outdoors while speaking at a Field Studies Council (FSC) conference.
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Sponsored
A world of excitement awaits at LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort
‘Engaging’, ‘brilliant’ and ‘fantastic’: just three of the words teachers have used to describe their school trip experiences at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort.