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5 top tips for running a successful geography club

April 12, 2016Oxford Geography Team
Three school girls studying globe

If you are keen to engage and extend pupils in geography, outside of the constraints of the curriculum, then you may be considering setting up an extra-curricular geography club, or ‘GeogSoc’, as it is known at my school. I read recently that heads of university admissions are placing more value on extra-curricular activities than they […]

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