In 2010 this is starting a new three-year period of funding by Colliers CRE managed by Kallaway and NaturesBase.

Angus Willson acted as an education adviser to The Photographers’ Gallery in setting up this project for the first three-year phase.

The project consists of secondary school geography fieldwork sessions supported by Richard Chivers, a professional geographer, and Gyles Morris, a geographer and advocate of fieldwork. Equipped with a camera each the learners are guided to capture a sense of place and it is wonderful to see them fully engaged in this task. They have to identify just five images to go forward into a selection procedure. This generates much thoughtful geographical discussion.

With ten schools participating each year, the photographs are short-listed down and the winners are presented at an Awards ceremony and posted in an online gallery.

In  addition to the fieldwork sessions, the project is running teacher CPD sessions at various locations around the country. These have been held in London, Birmingham, near Bristol and Leeds. Gyles and Angus ran a workshop at the Geographical Association Annual Conference in Derby 2010 and Richard and Angus conducted a similar session for teachers in Staffordshire.

Further bookings may appear on my list of events.

For further details see www.colliersgreenfocus.com [opens in a new window]

For booking information contact www.naturesbase.co.uk [opens in a new window]