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Home Ground Foundation Workbook

Category: KS3 Special Needs

This workbook has been designed to be used alongside the foundation level version of the textbook Home Ground: a Geography of Northern Ireland also by Colourpoint. Puzzles, questions and exercises have been carefully constructed by the same authors in order to enhance the understanding of issues explored in the book.

The workbook is designed for an individual pupil, with space for them to write their name, and 48 varied exercises to help them work through geographical concepts in an accessible way.

The Authors

Derek Polley is Head of Geography in Nendrum College, Comber. He graduated with a BA from Queen's University Belfast in 1969 and added a Diploma in Education 1970. He taught for two years in Sierra Leone. He has also taught in Ballynahinch High, Movilla High and Knockbreda High before being appointed to Comber High School (now Nendrum College) in 1991. This has given him wide experience of teaching Geography to the Junior School and also at CSE, 'O' level, GCSE and 'A' level. He is the author of Wider Ground (Colourpoint, 2005), Home Ground, A Geography of Northern Ireland (Colourpoint, 1999) and Higher Ground, A Geography of Northern Ireland for GCSE (Colourpoint, 2001).

Betty Calvert was Special Needs Co-ordinator in Knockbreda High School from 1978 until her early retirement in 1996. She is a member of the Special Needs Tribunal for Northern Ireland.

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