Menu
Download our brochure
Curriculum CPD – Geography
Adaptive approaches to primary geography
Led by Jon Cannell
Overview
The day will explore how to engage and enable all pupils to build the necessary components of geographical knowledge and skills, as well as ways of thinking and working to ensure a lifelong curiosity and fascination about the world and its people. We will explore how to utilise the practical and ‘real world’ nature of geography to support adaptive teaching approaches, focusing on three of the subject’s signature pedagogies: fieldwork, mapping and enquiry.
Enquiry based learning is a cornerstone of geographical thinking and we will consider how to effectively investigate places, environments and geographical issues. Delegates will develop an understanding of how to structure and support pupils to carry out a geographical enquiry. A process that might equally be applied to investigating litter, traffic and flooding at a local level, through to the interpretation of maps and expert studies to better understand the causes and effects of, for example, climate change at a global scale.
DATE: Friday, 3rd October 2025
TIME: 09:30-15:30
VENUE: Nailcote Hall, Nailcote Lane, Berkswell, Coventry, CV7 7DE
COST: £230 per person
_______________________________________________________________
Schools who subscribe to the Gateway Alliance Curriculum CPD Offer have FIVE FREE places on any of the TEN courses within the subscription.
Additional places can be purchased for £165 per person or schools can choose to purchase multiple subscriptions if they wish to take advantage of more places at a greater discount.
Costs will be incurred for schools that do not subscribe. Please see our terms for further details.
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact us on 02476 347697 or email: info@gatewayalliance.co.uk
Jon Cannell
Jon Cannell is the Primary Curriculum Lead at the Geographical Association. Since joining the team in 2016, Jon has developed and led a range of CPD sessions to ITT students, teachers and leaders on curriculum development, fieldwork, critical thinking and leadership. He has advised and supported schools to develop their geography curriculum to be broad, inclusive and in line with Ofsted’s EIF. Jon leads the Quality Mark process and moderation team and has led on projects funded by the British Council, DfE and DFID.
Prior to working for the Geographical Association, Jon taught at three primary schools in Norfolk before spending eleven years at Tanglin Trust School, a 3-18 international school in Singapore. Jon was a classroom teacher and member of the curriculum management team in the Junior School (800 on role). He spent one year out of the classroom as part of the Outdoor Education Leadership Team across all age groups focusing on ensuring that a range of physical, mental, social and emotional activities and challenges were effectively led and managed to support and enhance the curriculum.
