Enhancing primary geography with progressive fieldwork opportunities

This practical and interactive training day addresses Ofsted’s 2024 findings that fieldwork and local area use are underdeveloped in many primary schools.

Aimed at both new and experienced educators, it offers support for all school contexts—rural or urban—with a focus on delivering high-quality, enquiry-based geography fieldwork across EYFS to Year 6.

Key outcomes for participants

• A clear understanding of how to design and resource a creative, skills-based geography curriculum.
• Hands-on experience with fieldwork topics including weather, sustainability, sense of place, ecosystems, rivers, and more.
• Access to a broad range of CPD materials, schemes of work, and model activities for school-based use.
• Greater confidence and inspiration to lead engaging fieldwork and enquiry-based learning in their own settings.

About the speaker

Gyles Morris is a creative and dynamic leading education consultant who specialises in outdoor learning. He works nationally and internationally with teachers and children at all stages of learning in variety of indoor and outdoor classroom settings delivering training, workshops and giving keynote speeches.

As founder Director of Naturesbase, he is a true example of someone who ‘walks the talk’. He trained as a landscape architect designing formal and informal spaces and school grounds for people to positively interact with, then retrained as a teacher and has spent over 25 years engaging and inspiring pupils, students and teachers in the outdoor environment.

Booking information

• Advance booking for this event is required. In order to book you will need an account on our website. If you already have an account you will be prompted to log in when you click 'book now'. Please create an account if you do not have one yet (you do not need to be a member of the Society to create an account).
• Due to the administration involved, we are unable to provide invoices for this event. Payment must be taken at the time of booking.
• We do not issue tickets (electronic or physical) for this event. Instead your name will be on a list at the door. 

Making a booking on behalf of someone else

If you have any questions or require assistance with your booking, please email events@rgs.org

Accessibility at our events

We want everyone to feel welcome at our events. Key accessibility features of this event include:

• Step-free access to the event
• Accessible toilets
• Assistance dogs are welcome
• Hearing loop

For full details, please visit our accessibility page. If you have any questions or specific access requirements, feel free to get in touch with us on access@rgs.org