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So-Shan's map 'Work life'



Ruth's map 'Houses I have lived in'



 











 










What's happening this month ...

Events

The GA Conference
University of Manchester 
12–14 April 

We will be at Stands 5–7 and 9–11 with tempting treats (it is Easter after all), and equally irrestible offeres to help kick start your students' revision success in the new term. 

Our exclusive GA offers include: 

  • GCSE Geography My Revision Notes for only£5
  • Flash Revise for Geography only £3
  • Friday Afternoon Teacher Resources and Lesson packs - 25% off on all show orders
  • Philip Allan Student Unit guides - 25% off all classroom orders*
  • Free 60 day trials of any of our Geography Dynamic Learning resources and 14 day trials of any Geography Practise Every Question resource

As I'm not able to attend this year, I've enlisted the help of some trusted colleagues to tweet about their conference experiences with you. 

The official hashtag is #gaconf12




Geography teacher, Richard Allaway will be guest tweeting for us (also tweets in a personal capacity @richardallaway). He will be using the initials RA on his tweets. 




Head of Philip Allan and Science Publishing, Katie Blainey (also tweets @kblainey) will be using initials KB on her tweets. 








Editorial Director (Humanities and MFL), Jim Belben (also tweets @HodderHistory) will be using the initals JB on his tweets. 



If you spot them around the Conference, do say hello! 






MAPS
Hand-drawn London in partnership with Londonist (@Londonist)
You can check out the maps in the picture gallery in theIndependent

We ran our own map doodle competition. Inspired by the indeed magnificent Magnificent Maps exhibition, and Thierry Gregorius' (@Thierry_G) excellent doodle, we asked you to draw your own map of your world – real or imagined!

We attempted to doodle in the office, with varying success! You can, ahem ... laugh, I mean look at them on the left. 

View the winning entries and gallery here





 

 
What's on TV ... 
Three Hungry Boys
Channel 4, Sundays, 7pm or 4OD

Earthflight

BBC iPlayer or Thursdays, 8pm, BBC1

Nature's weirdest events

BBC iPlayer

Fridays, 7pm, BBC2
Great Barrier Reef with Monty Hall

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