Rex Walford Award

The winner of the 2021 Rex Walford Award is Paul Greenhalgh, Berkhamsted Boys’ School, Berkhamsted

This year, we asked trainee or early career geography teachers to create a short scheme of work, including a range of mapping, revealing how their pupils’ lives had been shaped by the Covid pandemic.

We were interested to see lessons, resources and maps illustrating and describing:

• Which local human and physical features their pupils and their family used during the pandemic

• Why some places were especially important

• The places they couldn’t visit and why

• If the pandemic has led to them experiencing any new places in their local area

• How the pandemic changed their geographical understanding of their local area

• Any links which ‘stretch’ their maps to other places which were also important to them during the pandemic