Colliers Green Focus is an exciting scheme that encourages secondary school geography students to spend a day exploring their local community in the context of environmental change and sustainability. Using photography as a creative medium, students capture a ‘sense of place’ through new eyes and hone their critical skills in selecting their best images for entry into a national photography competition.
Our professional geographer and photographer visit 10 schools each year (selected by application) to run a one-day programme, built around a fieldtrip and in-school workshop, which boost pupils’ insight into their local environment. They bring with them a set of regular digital compact cameras for the school to use that day. Images taken on these fieldtrips are automatically entered into the Colliers Green Focus Compact competition.
Over the course of the day students will make use of digital cameras as tools for research, exploration and documentation. They will learn how photography can be best applied within an environmental geography context and how to get the most from cameras for their future work. Students will then be expected to add further context to their images by writing about what they have photographed as part of a post field-trip workshop.
The field-trip programme has been developed by photographic and educational specialists to support the Key Stage 3 (S1-3 in Scotland) geography curriculum and the activities and themes covered can be tailored to reflect pupils’ current topic of study.
Colliers Green Focus is an excellent project for cross-curricular study. Whilst routed in the geography curriculum it links strongly into art and IT, with further possibilities to introduce themes relating to local history and citizenship.
An online application form is available at www.colliersgreenfocus.com
Who Can Apply: Colliers Green Focus is open to all secondary school in the UK and is for KS3 (S1-3) Geography students.
Teachers can apply to take part with one class or with a group selected from across a year group.
Funding Body: Colliers Green Focus is provided free of charge to Schools by Colliers International, the world’s third largest commercial real estate organisation with 512 offices in 61 countries.
Expiry date: ongoing
Website: www.colliersgreenfocus.com
Locations:National
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