Miss Berry

I am a geography teacher at a school in Peterborough . I am a nerd and I love geography !

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

In a world full of Donald Trumps and Elon Musks,

Be a Dolly Parton. ❤️

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@RogersHistory I am taking a sabbatical this year to travel (I am a geography teacher)

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@PrincipalTASE Yes please this looks really good.
[email protected]
Thank you.

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@fiona_616 @The_GA Congratulations x

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@adamboxer1 Would it be possible for you to show what the format of notes is like in your booklets please.
Do you get students to read/highlight the booklets after your explanations and before they answer the questions or are they more of a reference point for them to look at?

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@lcgeography Yes please ! You are incredible, thank you so much x x

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@fiona_616 @The_GA Congratulations! Well deserved you do so much for the geography community ! X x

[City's🐘 for Elephants & Rhinos🚩 @CitysFElephants]

#Thailand #ElephantAbuse
Good Luck? That's supposed to bring good luck. What superstition have these people succumbed to? How stupid🤯, dangerous and irresponsible!!! Fortunately nothing serious happened and no one was hurt.

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@HeadofGeog This is similar to my end of topic assessments. We have a knowledge, skills, reading and writing section.

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@Mrs_Geography Love this ! X

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

The last question to the panel was "what would you like the new government to do on curriculum and assessment?"

My answer:

If we are talking about curriculum and assessment, the biggest thing for me is a reduction. There's too much content across the board, and we need to strip back. We also need to stop assessment backwash, where exam mark schemes become a part of the curriculum and determine what students do and don't learn.

But that's if we're talking curriculum and assessment. If we're talking education in general - if @bphillipsonMP picked up the phone to me and said "what's the biggest thing in education" I would say something else:

Broadly, the education system itself in this country is working. Training is getting better, standards are improving, professionalism and professional knowledge is increasing and slowly, slowly, outcomes across the board are heading in the right direction. Curriculum and assessment need some changes, fixes, and tweaks, but in a broad sense they work.

What isn't working is everything else: we can't access CAMHS and we don't get hold of social workers. We have a two child limit and a benefits cap that keeps children hungry and in poverty. We have income cliff-edges that mean children whose parents can't afford meals are also not eligible for free school meals. We don't have Sure Start, we don't have youth centres. The SEND infrastructure is byzantine, underfunded and on the verge of collapse. The very fabric of the social security net is tattered and frayed, and vulnerable young children are falling through the gaps. Parents have lost faith in the system, and are losing their trust in schools and teachers.

Despite this, schools are heroically battling the odds to provide students with a high-quality, robust and meaningful education. But when everything outside our gates is in such disrepair there's a limit to what we can do.

So yes, there are things within education that need fixing. But the main thing - the biggest thing - is everything else. The best thing you can do for us is to fix that.

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@BristolUni Will these be recorded ? As they sound excellent but I will be on a residential with limited WiFi/signal to join? Thank you :)

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@Quigley_Becki This is amazing ! Would it be possible to have a copy please [email protected] Thank you so much ❤️ x

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

Extremely happy tonight x

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@fiona_616 Amazing !

[David Morgan (He/Him) @Dav1dM0rgan]

It’s a full house for todays #teachwithgis session @RGS_IBGschools missing @Geogologue, but @GIS4Schools taking the mouse & mic!

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

Thank you so much @fiona_616 for organising this ! We have some very proud and excited students.

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

Does anyone have the Pdf. files from the RGS old website link - I am a Geographer.

I was using them for lessons on careers in Geography and I did not save the files and I now cannot find them on the RGS new website.

[Miss Berry @BerryGoodGeog]

@sarahcnokes @Ofstednews This is fantastic thank you for sharing x