It's Thursday, so late night opening of the shops. Take a wander round the city centre. Victoria Sq is worth a visit. Cathedral Quarter has plenty of eating out options.

My thoughts exactly! Do you have any recommendations re the VPN?

On the plus side, maybe you'll learn some Swedish?!?

I saw that! Crazy, isn't it?!

I like to zoom in and zoom out a lot, too, as it helps build the schema. I'll look at how I can weave that into my analogy more explicitly.

...in providing that cognitive cohesion. I'm then including in each chapter about the substantive knowledge the relevant Big Ideas that can be explored there. So perhaps that empowering explanation element will come out more fully in that context.

Then I go on to discuss the challenge in geography of the fact that there is not one agreed route through the topics, so it can mean that pupils struggle to see the connections between all the topics we do. Finally I discuss the role of Big Ideas as part of geography's disciplinary knowledge...

Thanks, Lee. There's lots that could be said about Big Ideas, including their explanatory power. Where this sits in the flow of the chapter is that I start by discussing the dangers of teaching unconnected, "factoid" knowledge that fails to build strong schemas & connect with prior knowledge.

Now that's one I would definitely love to have been at! Alongside yours, too, of course! Talking of which, I'd love to hear more of what you shared.

Cheers, Conor.

Thanks, James!

Cheers, Dominic!