Just looking at the second online update that I've written to support the Harper Collins KS3 Geography series that the Geographical Association are involved in producing. The third one is currently being produced, and these will continue to come to you regularly for the next THREE YEARS...
If you sign up to e-mail updates to keep you posted about the KS3 Geography series that is being written in association with GA colleagues, you'll have all the latest geography news and ideas for teaching it dropping straight into your inbox...
The second update is about the changing fortunes of the High Street....
Coincidentally, yesterday it was announced that Mary Portas would be leading a review on how to "save the high street" and revitalise town centres. Just five minutes before reading that, I'd been driving into the centre of Sheffield to the GA offices, and past a huge new Tesco Extra being built near the Wicker arches in an area that previously was dominated by steel and industrial workshops... although it will have a hot chicken counter I'm reliably informed... This will, of course, ensure that new jobs are created, and was certainly good news for the mobile van which had obviously won the contract to supply the construction workers, who were queueing up for their bacon butties as I drove past...
There were a lot of tweets after this announcement essentially saving the government the time and (presumably) expense (and at a time of cutbacks too...) by summing up the cause of the decline in high street spending in 4 words: supermarkets and internet shopping... oh, and the fact that a lot of people are losing their jobs and everything costs more than it used to...
If you sign up to e-mail updates to keep you posted about the KS3 Geography series that is being written in association with GA colleagues, you'll have all the latest geography news and ideas for teaching it dropping straight into your inbox...
The second update is about the changing fortunes of the High Street....
Coincidentally, yesterday it was announced that Mary Portas would be leading a review on how to "save the high street" and revitalise town centres. Just five minutes before reading that, I'd been driving into the centre of Sheffield to the GA offices, and past a huge new Tesco Extra being built near the Wicker arches in an area that previously was dominated by steel and industrial workshops... although it will have a hot chicken counter I'm reliably informed... This will, of course, ensure that new jobs are created, and was certainly good news for the mobile van which had obviously won the contract to supply the construction workers, who were queueing up for their bacon butties as I drove past...
There were a lot of tweets after this announcement essentially saving the government the time and (presumably) expense (and at a time of cutbacks too...) by summing up the cause of the decline in high street spending in 4 words: supermarkets and internet shopping... oh, and the fact that a lot of people are losing their jobs and everything costs more than it used to...
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