Events for students
AS Study Day
Date: Monday 22 April 2013
Venue: RGS-IBG London
Timings: All day event
Cost: £15 RGS-IBG School Members and Young Geographers, £20 non-members
- Increase your subject knowledge and get great exam revision tips
- Focus on detailed case studies
- Learn from examiner reports how to achieve top grades in exams
Please see our booklet MSWORD | PDF for further information.
Booking and tickets
- Please complete the booking form MSWORD | PDF
- For further information, please contact Iain Mitchell on 020 7591 3045 or email us
A2 Study Day
Take advantage of learning opportunities, access subject experts and increase your subject knowledge.
- Find out how A2 geography students can succeed
- Learn from examiner experts how to achieve top grades in exams
- Access unique case study material on issues relevant to A2 specifications
- Experience Higher Education style learning
- Explore the issues such as plate tectonics, ecosystems, development and globalisation, energy and water resource management
- Raise awareness of the impact of geography on our changing world
Booking and tickets
- The next event will be autumn 2013, booking will open from early summer 2013
Going Places with Geography for Year 12 pupils
An opportunity for pupils who are considering geography as a university option to find out more about the subject, progression and careers. Workshops will be lively and hands-on and led by our geography ambassadors. Places are free but must be booked in advance.
Date: Friday 5 July 2013
Venue: RGS-IBG, London
Timings: All day event
Cost: Free
Booking and tickets
- Booking will open from Monday 15 April 2013
- Places must be booked in advance
- Booking form MSWORD | PDF
- Information booklet (PDF)
- For further information, please contact Iain Mitchell on 020 7591 3045 or email us
Going Places with Geography for Year 9 pupils
An opportunity for pupils who are considering geography as a GCSE option to find out more about the subject, progression and careers. Workshops will be lively and hands-on and led by our geography ambassadors. Places limited to 25 per school and are free but must be booked in advance.
Booking details for Going Places events in the 2013/14 academic year will be announced in summer 2013.
For AS Students: Fieldwork Summer School
Blencathra FSC Centre, Lake District, 19-23 August 2013. Apply by 3 May 2013
Fully funded places are available on a five day fieldwork summer school for AS geography students at the end of Year 12. The courses give students who would not normally have such opportunities a chance to experience high quality residential fieldwork. Course activities include investigating glacial landscapes, tourism and flooding. Students will have the opportunity to work in groups to investigate why change has taken place in the National Park.
For further information, course programmes and applications contact Amber Sorrell, call on +44 (0)20 7591 3180 or visit the Learning and Leading pages of this website.
What will I be doing?
During the summer school you will get to:
- Improve your geographical skills, knowledge and understanding: see real-life case studies: gain hands-on experience of fieldwork techniques, use new technolgy
- Prepare for studying at university
- Build confidence and independence, work on initiative and as a team, develop leadership skills
- Find out what students did on previous summer schools
- Find out more about the Learning & Leading project