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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 17h

Noticing the nights drawing in? 🌙

October brings a big shift with most of the UK losing over 2 hours of daylight this month!

Do you enjoy the cosy evenings or miss the longer days?

Map of the UK showing daylight lost during October by region. Northern areas like Lerwick lose about 2 hours 40 minutes, Stornoway 2 hours 30 minutes, Aberdeen 2 hours 20 minutes, Glasgow and Newcastle 2 hours 10 minutes, Manchester and Birmingham 2 hours, and southern areas such as London and Plymouth about 1 hour 50 minutes. Background uses colour bands to indicate daylight loss.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 2d

It will be interesting to see how sharply the other parties use the local government/council experience as attack lines in the lead up to national conversations.

Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing! How wonderful! Best thing I've seen on here in weeks!

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 4d

Appreciate I've been away from BlueSky for a little leave, but OH MY GOD YOU HAVE KITTENS AND THEY ARE ADORABLE!

Ahem.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 5d

I've been inspired by so many teachers and geographers, and I hope I have done them justice. I'm excited (and really nervous!) to see what people make of it - and I hope it helps teachers on their journey through this wonderful subject and community that I've had the privilege of being part of.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 5d

Huge thanks to contributors who trusted me with their stories, including Abdurrahman Perez-McMillan, @mildthing99.bsky.social, @theislandgeogr.bsky.social, @geogramblings.com, Karen at Discover the World, Joseph Milton, Kelly Daish, Alice Moy, Clare Proctor, and Catherine Fitzsimons for editing it!

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 5d

The book stands on the shoulders of giants at @geographicalassoc.bsky.social the brilliant @rgs-ibgschools.bsky.social team, and great thinkers like Margaret Roberts @ensermark.bsky.social David Gardner @stevebracegeog.bsky.social @ahamill.bsky.social @geography-emma.bsky.social & Vicki Poutney.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 5d

I wish it was landing in a world where these topics were not quite so heavy for teachers and their communities.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 5d

The series aim is to provide an insight in to practical, evidence-informed ideas to help geography teachers through their career - whether that's in lesson & curriculum planning, thinking about fieldwork, options and careers embedding, or grappling with contested issues and representation.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted and grateful that Secondary Geography in Action is now published and on sale with @hachettelearning.bsky.social as part of @teacherhead.bsky.social's "In Action" series.

www.hachettelearning.com/geography/se...

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 8d

I once marked an A Level paper where five of the six essay questions were blank.

Final page had a note, saying "Dear examiner, I didn't want to do this today, but my teachers said I had to, so I've sat here. Sorry you had to mark this".

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 9d

It's a cold start for some of us, did you need to scrape frost this morning?

These are the lowest temperatures recorded last night in each of the home nations of the UK 👇

A map of the UK showing the minimum temperatures recorded on 29th September 2025 in each of the four nations in the UK.
Scotland: Minus 3.6°C in Altnaharra
Northern Ireland: 0.2°C in Katesbridge
England: 0.2°C in Shap and Chillingham Barns
Wales: 0.2°C in Sennybridge

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 15d

Could have been designed for SEN reasons (e.g. specifying font for readability, colour palette for same plus col blindness), min text size for accessibility reasons.

I've seen it done to comply with new Gov standards on accessibility from Sep 25 onwards.

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 15d

What are you hoping to achieve? Breadth and New? Scholarship and depth? Above and beyond, or extension of curriculum content?

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Steve Brace @stevebracegeog.bsky.social · 19d

Delighted to contribute to TES piece on non specialists

"The @geographicalassoc.bsky.social said, the ideal would be for all geography lessons to be taught by passionate & expert subject-specialist geography teachers - who can bring the subject to life for their pupils.

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Year 7s commonly taught by non-specialist teachers

Some 36 per cent of secondary teachers report that a non-specialist is teaching children who have just moved up to their school, a Teacher Tapp poll for Tes shows

www.tes.com

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19d

Ten options for future leaf-removal trains...

10. Keanu Leaves
9. Twiggy Pop
8. Axel Foliage
7. Britney Clears
6. The Regional Branch Manager
5. Leaf No Trace
4. The Fall Guy
3. That Don't Impress Me Mulch
2. A Good Railing
1. Maybe She's Born With it. Maybe It's Maple-leaves

Train named Ctrl Alt Deleaf to tackle leaves on the line

A leaf-removal train has been named Ctrl Alt Deleaf after a public vote.

www.independent.ie

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 24d

What kinds of genre did you like? How do you feel about critically acclaimed vs classics vs recently published?

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 26d

Despite all of the things he has faced - including the challenges, but also coaching and wonderful England roles - he remains committed to being a really lovely human being, and trying his best to make his communities better using the things he loves and knows best.

I hope it brings you some joy.

Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · 26d

It's been quite a heavy week for so many.

I'd like to recommend that you have a look at Freddie Flintoff's excellent new series of Field of Dreams. For any of us working with young people, particularly in under-served communities, the spotlight it shines is heart warming and inspiring.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 28d

Slogan ideas…

“Smoking hot body or your money back”
– crematorium

“The first one’s on the house”
– chimney installers

“We’re not afraid to raise a few eyebrows”
– plastic surgeons

“We’ll help bring out your inner child”
– maternity ward

“There’s no turning back now”
– neck brace manufacturers

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 28d

Have you noticed the nights drawing in a little earlier?

September is one of the months where we lose sunlight the quickest as we move towards the autumnal equinox

Sunrise and sunset times across the UK on Wednesday 10 September 2025.

Lerwick: Sunrise = 06:20, Sunset = 19:40
Edinburgh: Sunrise = 06:35, Sunset = 19:43
Belfast: Sunrise = 06:47, Sunset = 19:52
Hull: Sunrise = 06:26, Sunset = 19:29
Wrexham: Sunrise = 06:37, Sunset = 19:39
Peterborough: Sunrise = 06:27, Sunset = 19:27
Cardiff: Sunrise = 06:39, Sunset = 19:38
London: Sunrise = 06:27, Sunset = 19:26
Penzance: Sunrise = 06:50, Sunset = 19:46

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Anthony Barlow @totalgeography.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us for our 25-26 webinars

GeogLive! 28 Leadership for Sustainability
www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
DfE “all education settings will have nominated a sustainability lead and put in place a climate action plan”
How might you connect this with curriculum?
@geographicalassoc.bsky.social

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Dr David Preece @doctorpreece.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's really interesting to reflect on this. Even in recent reports (e.g. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b1b8...), where this should be front and centre, it's... only lightly touched in the lit review. 19 mentions of "class" but many are 'classroom' or 'classification'...

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · Sep 5

🌍 We're looking for schools in England to take part in new research on how climate change & Net Zero concepts are taught in KS3.

Schools will benefit from CPD opportunities and early access to the Oxford Net Zero Education Framework.

📩 Register interest by 12 Sept: bit.ly/3VywHGY #Edusky

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣Geography teachers - this school year, take advantage of our up-to-date case studies, info on geographical careers, CPD for teachers, and events for students - and more. 👉 http://bit.ly/4mIwzkn.

We wish you a rewarding year of geographical learning! 🍎

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