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08:00 BST

Phase Committees and SIGs T221

09:00 BST

Creating lessons that include everyone T209 Empowering quiet voices with personality-inclusive geography classrooms T208 Normalising nature in the classroom and curriculum T211 From intent to impact: decolonising KS3 geography T210 Making a difference through subject leadership T207 Panel session with global industry leaders: careers shaping the future of our world SG03/S103 Bloxham Sustainability Challenge: Building Future Ready Skills through GIS and Real World Enquiry T217 Your rock-powered smartphone T205 Main features of thermohaline circulation-oceanic conveyor belt T216 The pylon paradox: unpacking conflicting views of our energy futures T220

10:00 BST

Rex Walford Memorial Lecture: Reimagining geography: creative and critical thinking for a changing world SL03

11:00 BST

Morning break First timers' reception T220 Geography at scale: how MAT networks support teachers and learners T217 Overcoming barriers: geography in a hospital school setting T216 The Shire Project T210

11:30 BST

Using visual research methodologies in schools T216 Musical geographies: sense of place and storytelling in the curriculum T211 Curriculum Review ‘evolution not revolution’: implications for a coherent 11-16 curriculum T205 GIS for EAL: enhancing understanding and progression T210 Helping students to question sustainability T207 How do you KNOW they know? Checking for understanding in the geography classroom. T209 Teaching careers in geography T208 Geographies of illicit finance: capital flows, social harm and spatial contexts T217 Global warming, air quality and deprivation SG03/S103

11:55 BST

The role of retrieval practice in supporting memory and motivation in GCSE geography T216

12:20 BST

12:30 BST

Ensuring high-quality geography is open to all: learning from Routes journal T210 Islands of insight: a Caribbean perspective on geography education T205 The SPC’s working lunch: Find your Dinner Peace T209

14:00 BST

Practical strategies for embedding character education T205 Future Pearson GCSE Geography: Review, Updates and Collaboration Geography for life: bringing learning to life through fieldwork T210 Moments that make a difference: reframing geography fieldwork T208 Digital tools for decolonisation, interdisciplinarity, collaboration & belonging T211 Future Pearson GCSE geography: review, updates and collaboration T216 Geography careers that make a difference T207 Managing political change and challenge in the geography classroom T209 Geography of the future: what, where and how T217 Third place theory: making a difference to social progress and urban landscapes SG03/S103

14:25 BST

Dialogic questioning to improve female students' attainment in KS3 geography T205

15:00 BST

Afternoon break Inspiring students to aim higher with careers in the classroom T210 Singapore geography: cultivating Earth stewards and global citizens T216 Supporting weaker students in A level geography T205

15:30 BST

Islam and geography: critical pedagogy and understanding Muslim students T217 Fieldwork skills that make a difference T207 Green spaces matter T205 Novice teacher co-planning: using AI to make a difference T209 The difference a hierarchy makes: rethinking the power of geographic frameworks T211 Exploring BBC Bitesize 'Planet Planners on Roblox' T216 NetZeroED: making a difference to climate change education T210 The geography of health and disease: making a difference in your KS3 curriculum planning T208 Upland fires and air quality in the Peak District SG03/S103

16:30 BST

Promoting geography teacher agency T220 The National Education Nature Park: mapping a sustainable future T210 Supporting students with SEND in geography: autism focus T208 When worlds collide: maximising curriculum time through cross-curricular enquiries T209 Making a decisive difference: physical geography in National Parks T205 Teaching climate change differently T207 The new Welsh GCSE: making a difference in Wales, lessons to learn for England? T216 Critical pedagogy: learning and teaching about the geographies of Palestine T217 Everyday geographies: teaching local food security through 'foodscapes' SG03/S103

16:55 BST

Geography beyond the reality: exam-oriented cramming vs real-time geographical understanding T211 Using reading groups to support teacher research engagement T220

17:30 BST

Presidential lecture: Geography makes a difference SL03

18:30 BST

Celebratory reception Showroom Workstation

19:15 BST

TeachMeet Showroom Workstation