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Catherine Owen
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Geography teacher with 30 years classroom experience. Vice President of The Geographical Association. CGeog & Fellow of RGS. Jack & Megan’s Mum. Love reading, travelling & learning. 🌍
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A great afternoon at Mevagissey Shanty Festival.
Catherine in front of the stage. Pirates in the audience. Some of the shanty singers Jack, Catherine & Gary at the Festival.
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Thank you to GAFOLSIG for welcoming me to your meeting today. Your work is so valuable & I love taking part in the annual National Festival of Fieldwork. Shout out to anyone interested in joining the group - particularly primary teachers - get in touch & get involved! @theislandgeogr.bsky.social
Catherine at an online meeting with the GA Fieldwork and Outdoor Learning group.
October 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Beautiful mushrooms on Exmoor! 🍄
Orange Fungi on the end of a mossy log. Bright red mushrooms. Clusters of yellow mushrooms amongst stones. Catherine next to two large mushrooms.
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Feels very official now I have the badge!
Catherine wearing her GA President badge. The badge.
October 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Thank you for all the positivity about ‘What is geography teaching, now?’ So proud of this book - for teachers, by teachers. ❤️ @jennnnnn.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I’ve got my hands on a copy at last! I’ve loved working with so many wonderful geographers on this project. I hope it will help & inspire others. @hachettelearning.bsky.social
Catherine with a copy of her new book ‘What is Geography Teaching, Now?’
September 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Great day presenting the Essential A level Geography course for Tutor2U with Alice today. Dream team!
Intro slide for course. Set up & ready to go - table with sweets, water & booklets. Alice presenting to the group. A selfie with the group in the background.
September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Thank you to Gill for chairing the GA Education Group meeting yesterday - so much energy & enthusiasm in the room!
GA EG members at their meeting in the Institute of Education.
September 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Thank you to @geogenquirer.bsky.social and @ga-exeter.bsky.social for making me so welcome to your first meeting. It was great to hear Matt talk & chat to other passionate geographers.
Title slide for talk A Journeys in Decolonising Geography. Suggestions for decolonising geography - recognising each other’s humanity, saying the unsayable and experimenting with (y)our history. GA branch meeting.
September 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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We’ve loved park yoga this summer. The last session today was really special. ❤️
Catherine with friends & family at Park Yoga. Park yoga at Vivary Park in Taunton. People sat on mats under the trees.
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Out on 19th Sept - very excited to see it in print! Written by teachers for teachers. 🌍
Cover of ‘What is geography teaching, now?’
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Really enjoyed being part of a community litter pick in Weston Super Mare this afternoon. Beautiful views between showers!
Catherine and her litter pickers. Catherine & Sophie with bags of rubbish collected by the group outside the pier. Poetry on the glass panels in the seaside shelters. The Grand Pier at sunset.
September 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Blackberry picking by the canal - one of my favourite things to do in late summer ❤️
Catherine blackberry picking with her friend. Catherine with a box of blackberries with teasels in n the background. Blackberry bushes. Blackberry & apple crumble with custard.
August 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Incredible day at All Points East in Hackney. Great to see so many women headlining. ❤️
Catherine in the foreground with Cat Burns on the screen in the background. Catherine dancing in the crowd with JADE on the big screen. Tyla on stage, screen & many phones! The amazing RAYE onstage.
August 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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An overcast afternoon, but the River Parrett in Langport was still a beautiful place to paddle board.
Catherine kneeling on her paddle board on the river. Signpost about the wildlife along the banks of the river in the foreground with Jack on his paddle board in the background. Catherine with friends 8 family on their paddle boards. Heading under the bridge in Langport on our paddle boards.
August 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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We’ve found all the Gromits! Whoop! #GromitUnleashed3
Screenshot of App showing all Gromit sculptures have been found. Catherine with the Yellow Submarine Grit at The Mall. Close up of Catherine’s face & a Gromit sculpture covered with paintings of birds. Catherine & family with Darth McGraw sculpture at The Mall.
August 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Another Gromit-inspired visit to Bristol today!
Feathers McGraw sculpture at Ashton Court. Catherine at Clifton Suspension Bridge. Catherine in a ‘once a pond a time’ artwork in Quakers Friars in Bristol. Catherine with a brightly coloured Norbot sculpture.
August 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Stroll in Pentewan this morning, then dinner at one of Rick Stein’s restaurants in Padstow this evening. Love the summer holidays!
Catherine & family with Rouna at Pentewan - beach in background. Catherine with her starter at Rick Stein’s restaurant- Maryland Crabcakes. Padstow harbour as the sun is setting. Catherine outside The Seafood Restaurant in Padstow.
August 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Paddle boarding, swimming & enjoying the sun in St Austell Bay today.
Catherine paddling her paddleboard - photo taken from behind. View across Charlestown Beach with paddle board in the foreground. Catherine enjoying take away tempura king prawns on Charlestown Beach. View over Duporth Beach from the coastal path.
August 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Back in Cornwall to see Mum & enjoy the beautiful coast. This time I have Rouna & Jack with me. ❤️
Jack, Catherine & Rouna in Charlestown harbour. Charlestown harbour. Pint of St Austell Brewery beer. Evening pic of Charlestown harbour - shoplift up with lights.
August 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Another day in beautiful Bristol - popped in to see the in-laws in Keynsham, Gromit-spotted in Clifton & watched the last mass ascent of the Balloon Fiesta from the Downs. What a city! ❤️
Catherine with a Norbot sculpture in Victoria Park. Catherine with a mirror covered Gromit sculpture outside the Victoria Rooms in Clifton. Catherine with a Gromit sculpture painted with scenes related to the film industry. About twenty balloons in the sky over the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
August 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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More Gromit hunting today! This time in the area to the south of Bristol - where I grew up. Great day!
Catherine with a pink Gromit statue at Puxton Park Catherine with a statue of Feathers McGraw decorated to look like a toucan at Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm. Catherine & Jack with a Wallace statue at the New Inn with Blagdon Lake in the background. Catherine with a Wallace statue decorated as a Roman solider at Cheddar Gorge.
August 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Last day in Brittany - there was a parade & a demonstration of rescue dogs in Dinard this morning, along with a market & various music events. This afternoon we visited Les Rochers Sculptés. Great way to end a superb week. 🇫🇷 ❤️
Costume parade along Dinard sea front. Rescue dogs demonstrated their skills in the lido. Another opportunity for some beach time & a swim for Catherine. Catherine next to a sculpture of a cow at Les Rochers Sculptés.
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Brittany’s Pink Granite Coast is very impressive!
Catherine by large pink granite rock formation. Rock that has weathered to resemble a face in profile. Beautiful rocks by a beach. We walked/paddled to these islands.
August 1, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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St Malo, Mont Saint Michel & Cancale. Love Brittany! ❤️
View from Walls of St Malo Owen family in front of Mont Saint Michel. Mont Saint Michel. Lady shucking oysters in Cancale.
July 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM