The following activities can be particularly beneficial for gifted pupils.

Arrange for gifted pupils to have access to personnel and facilities in higher education geography departments.

Local Geographical Association (GA) evening and day workshops and the GA Worldwide Quiz can enrich pupils' experiences.

Work experience placements in activities relevant to geography, for example, in waste management, an environmental group, the Ordnance Survey, the Met Office.

Consider arranging optional, unaccompanied residential experience at one of the Field Studies Council centres, where skilled field teachers can enrich pupils' learning.

Give able pupils opportunities to use their knowledge of geography to organise clubs, newsboards and a newsletter, both within and between schools. Encourage them to use teleconferencing with European partners (through a project organised through the Comenius programme, for example), or to create a school-based geography website. Comenius supports a wide range of activities in the field of school education.

Encourage gifted pupils to represent the school on local environment initiatives or Local Agenda 21 projects.

Encourage pupils to write about geography and what the school does, for professional journals such as the Geographical Association's Teaching Geography or for local, regional or even national newspapers.

Arranging activities outside the school in the general guidance

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