MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧
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Head of Geography in Bristol 👨🏻🏫 Oxford, KCL, Sheffield🎓 UNCC accredited 🇺🇳 Views are my own 💭
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Iran 🇮🇷
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This week’s flag: Iran 🇮🇷 The Persian country is currently experiencing a devastating drought due to a lack of rainfall 🏜️ Reservoirs supplying Tehran are less than 10%, which means that the country’s capital city is at risk of having to be evacuated 🏙 youtube.com/shorts/Mp7vX...
This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 COP30 is currently taking place in Belem and is the 30th annual Conference of the Parties, where countries meet with the UN to discuss how we can mitigate, adapt, and manage the financial impacts of climate change 🌎(/1) youtube.com/shorts/T73NX...
Brazil 🇧🇷
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November 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 COP30 is currently taking place in Belem and is the 30th annual Conference of the Parties, where countries meet with the UN to discuss how we can mitigate, adapt, and manage the financial impacts of climate change 🌎(/1) youtube.com/shorts/T73NX...
This week’s flag: Iran 🇮🇷 The Persian country is currently experiencing a devastating drought due to a lack of rainfall 🏜️ Reservoirs supplying Tehran are less than 10%, which means that the country’s capital city is at risk of having to be evacuated 🏙 youtube.com/shorts/Mp7vX...
Iran 🇮🇷
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November 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This week’s flag: Iran 🇮🇷 The Persian country is currently experiencing a devastating drought due to a lack of rainfall 🏜️ Reservoirs supplying Tehran are less than 10%, which means that the country’s capital city is at risk of having to be evacuated 🏙 youtube.com/shorts/Mp7vX...
This week’s flag: Jamaica 🇯🇲 During half-term, the country was hit by Hurricane Melissa 🌀 The Category 5 storm intensified over the Caribbean Sea to become to joint strongest in the Atlantic Ocean’s history 🌎 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/7Jh8B...
Jamaica 🇯🇲
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This week’s flag: Jamaica 🇯🇲 During half-term, the country was hit by Hurricane Melissa 🌀 The Category 5 storm intensified over the Caribbean Sea to become to joint strongest in the Atlantic Ocean’s history 🌎 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/7Jh8B...
This week’s flag: Hawaï 🇺🇸 The USA’s smallest state is home to the world’s most active volano - Mt Kilauea 🌋Last weekend, the volcano erupted for the 36th time since December 2024, which means it has done so once a week since the end of last year 📆 youtube.com/shorts/LR7oa...
Hawaï 🏄♂️
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October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This week’s flag: Hawaï 🇺🇸 The USA’s smallest state is home to the world’s most active volano - Mt Kilauea 🌋Last weekend, the volcano erupted for the 36th time since December 2024, which means it has done so once a week since the end of last year 📆 youtube.com/shorts/LR7oa...
This week's flag: the Philippines 🇵🇭 The East Asian country has been in the news recently after suffering from a series of natural hazards 📰 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/nOGk2...
Philippines 🇵🇭
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October 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This week's flag: the Philippines 🇵🇭 The East Asian country has been in the news recently after suffering from a series of natural hazards 📰 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/nOGk2...
Two years ago, I was approached by @geogmum.bsky.social and @jennnnnn.bsky.social about a book on teaching geography in the 21st century 🌍 They asked me if I wanted to write a chapter on how to teach geographical skills in secondary school 📝
September 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Two years ago, I was approached by @geogmum.bsky.social and @jennnnnn.bsky.social about a book on teaching geography in the 21st century 🌍 They asked me if I wanted to write a chapter on how to teach geographical skills in secondary school 📝
This week’s flag: Taiwan 🇹🇼 The country was hit by Typhoon Ragasa, which officially was the strongest tropical storm of the year 🌀 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/0N1Bv...
Taiwan 🇹🇼
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September 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This week’s flag: Taiwan 🇹🇼 The country was hit by Typhoon Ragasa, which officially was the strongest tropical storm of the year 🌀 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/0N1Bv...
This week’s flag: Morocco 🇲🇦 This week, the country became the 60th country to sign the UN’s High Seas Treaty 🌊 Three years ago, countries agreed to turn 30% of the world’s oceans into Marine Protected Areas 💙 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/kCmu9...
Morocco 🇲🇦
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September 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This week’s flag: Morocco 🇲🇦 This week, the country became the 60th country to sign the UN’s High Seas Treaty 🌊 Three years ago, countries agreed to turn 30% of the world’s oceans into Marine Protected Areas 💙 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/kCmu9...
This week's flag: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 The largest country in the Horn of Africa has made the news after inaugurating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) 🚧 (/1) youtu.be/W2WrXi6_QV8?...
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
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September 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This week's flag: Ethiopia 🇪🇹 The largest country in the Horn of Africa has made the news after inaugurating the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) 🚧 (/1) youtu.be/W2WrXi6_QV8?...
This week’s flag: Malaysia 🇲🇾 Later this week, Mr Leigh and I will be heading on expedition with a group of Year 12 students in Borneo 🌴 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/lv1Zt...
Malaysia 🇲🇾
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July 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This week’s flag: Malaysia 🇲🇾 Later this week, Mr Leigh and I will be heading on expedition with a group of Year 12 students in Borneo 🌴 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/lv1Zt...
Just taught my last full 5 lesson teaching day of the academic year 🎉
June 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just taught my last full 5 lesson teaching day of the academic year 🎉
This week’s flag: Scotland 🏴 In an attempt to reduce waste and methane emissions, our Northern neighbour is banning landfill from 31 December 2025 onwards 🚮 (/1 ) youtube.com/shorts/5as_r...
Scotland 🏴
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June 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This week’s flag: Scotland 🏴 In an attempt to reduce waste and methane emissions, our Northern neighbour is banning landfill from 31 December 2025 onwards 🚮 (/1 ) youtube.com/shorts/5as_r...
This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 The South American country has made the news after cutting down 8 miles of road in the Amazon rainforest as it preparesto host COP30 this winter 🌴 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/LY1yp...
Brazil 🇧🇷
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June 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This week’s flag: Brazil 🇧🇷 The South American country has made the news after cutting down 8 miles of road in the Amazon rainforest as it preparesto host COP30 this winter 🌴 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/LY1yp...
This week’s flag: Nigeria 🇳🇬 Africa’s most populated country is still coming to terms with devastating flash floods that destroyed the town of Mokwa and killed 200 people with 500 still missing 🚑 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/FPK25...
Nigeria 🇳🇬
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June 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This week’s flag: Nigeria 🇳🇬 Africa’s most populated country is still coming to terms with devastating flash floods that destroyed the town of Mokwa and killed 200 people with 500 still missing 🚑 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/FPK25...
This week’s flag: Switzerland 🇨🇭 The Alpine country made the news on 28th May when parts of a glacier collapsed near the village of Blatten 🏔️ In total, 9 million cubic meters of ice and rocks destroyed and buried 90% of the village 🏚️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/D0pwq...
Switzerland 🇨🇭
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June 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This week’s flag: Switzerland 🇨🇭 The Alpine country made the news on 28th May when parts of a glacier collapsed near the village of Blatten 🏔️ In total, 9 million cubic meters of ice and rocks destroyed and buried 90% of the village 🏚️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/D0pwq...
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An outrageously silly @badgeographyjoke to make you smile today. You might’ve realized that as a geographer I shamelessly label geology material as bad geography jokes. Sorry dear geologists…
June 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
An outrageously silly @badgeographyjoke to make you smile today. You might’ve realized that as a geographer I shamelessly label geology material as bad geography jokes. Sorry dear geologists…
Reposted by MrVisGeography 🇨🇵🌋🇧🇪🌍🇬🇧
'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims
Shifting ethnic dynamic of the UK driven by immigration predicted to cause dramatic changes
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June 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
'the white British share of the population – defined as people who do not have an immigrant parent' 😂😂 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...
This week’s flag: the European Union 🇪🇺 This week, the UK and the EU signed a new trade deal in an attempt to reset relations after Brexit 🇬🇧 If Eurovision has taught us one thing it is that the UK’s public rating in Europe are at an all time low 🎶 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/MNbBG...
European Union
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May 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This week’s flag: the European Union 🇪🇺 This week, the UK and the EU signed a new trade deal in an attempt to reset relations after Brexit 🇬🇧 If Eurovision has taught us one thing it is that the UK’s public rating in Europe are at an all time low 🎶 (/1) youtube.com/shorts/MNbBG...
This week’s flag: Türkiye 🇹🇷 After 40 years of insurgency, a kurdish separatist organisation called the PKK has decided to lay down its arms and disband 🕊️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/f-vuO...
Türkiye 🇹🇷
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May 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This week’s flag: Türkiye 🇹🇷 After 40 years of insurgency, a kurdish separatist organisation called the PKK has decided to lay down its arms and disband 🕊️ (/1) youtube.com/shorts/f-vuO...
What a manic day 🤯 This morning I waved goodbye to my lovely Year 11 mentor group who I met back in 2020 amidst a pandemic, I uploaded all the NEA paperwork to the LWT, and spent most of my "free" time ironing out final details before our departure to Naples this evening...
May 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
What a manic day 🤯 This morning I waved goodbye to my lovely Year 11 mentor group who I met back in 2020 amidst a pandemic, I uploaded all the NEA paperwork to the LWT, and spent most of my "free" time ironing out final details before our departure to Naples this evening...
This week's flag: Italy 🇮🇹 Tonight we are heading to the Bay of Naples for the first ever international geography trip at RGS ✈️ Having already visited the area three times with previous schools, I honestly cannot wait to take you all there 🌍 Andiamo 🗣️
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Italy 🇮🇹
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May 7, 2025 at 5:47 AM
This week's flag: Italy 🇮🇹 Tonight we are heading to the Bay of Naples for the first ever international geography trip at RGS ✈️ Having already visited the area three times with previous schools, I honestly cannot wait to take you all there 🌍 Andiamo 🗣️
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Successful day of data collection on Slapton Sands ⛱️ My group spend the whole day collected rock samples and beach profiles on the bar 🪨 After walking nearly 13km, they found the energy to write up parts of their NEA methodology before dinner 👏
April 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Successful day of data collection on Slapton Sands ⛱️ My group spend the whole day collected rock samples and beach profiles on the bar 🪨 After walking nearly 13km, they found the energy to write up parts of their NEA methodology before dinner 👏
Today we walked from Start Point to @fscslaptonley along the South West Coastal Path 🏞️ Along our 15km hike, students collected primary data on coastal management strategies in Hallsands, Beesands, Sunnydale, and Torcross 🏖️
April 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Today we walked from Start Point to @fscslaptonley along the South West Coastal Path 🏞️ Along our 15km hike, students collected primary data on coastal management strategies in Hallsands, Beesands, Sunnydale, and Torcross 🏖️
This week’s flag: China 🇨🇳 A few weeks ago, the Trump administration imposed a 125% tariff on goods arriving from China 💹 In response, the Chinese government reciprocated with a 84% tariff on American imports 💰 (/1)
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China 🇨🇳
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April 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This week’s flag: China 🇨🇳 A few weeks ago, the Trump administration imposed a 125% tariff on goods arriving from China 💹 In response, the Chinese government reciprocated with a 84% tariff on American imports 💰 (/1)
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Successful first day in Slapton with our Year 12s 🏖️ Our first stop was in Totnes where students carried research on the concept of transition towns 🏙️ After arriving, we walked down to Slapton Sands to practice different data collection methods ⛱️ After that we walked home via Slapton Ley ☀️
April 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Successful first day in Slapton with our Year 12s 🏖️ Our first stop was in Totnes where students carried research on the concept of transition towns 🏙️ After arriving, we walked down to Slapton Sands to practice different data collection methods ⛱️ After that we walked home via Slapton Ley ☀️