What is Colliers Green Focus?
Colliers Green Focus is an exciting, new project for Key Stage 3 Geography students, enabling them to spend a day with a photographer and geographer exploring the environment on a fieldtrip in their local area.

A selection of photographs taken on the field trip, as part of each workshop, will be shown in the Colliers Green Focus exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in September 2008. Judges will choose three winning entries to be announced at an annual national award ceremony.

A selection of photographs will also go into a specially designed resource book and website, for photography students and teachers to make use of as part of their work.

Where will Colliers Green Focus take place?
Each one day workshop will be run in partnership with schools in Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, London and Manchester and take place in classrooms and on a fieldtrip within each school's local area.

When will the workshops and subsequent exhibition of student work take place?
The first year of the Colliers Green Focus programme will be a pilot year with the deadline for entries on Friday 2nd November 2007.

In November 2007 the selected schools will be announced and a one-day workshop will be organised on a day convenient to each school, during the spring or summer term. A planning session between each lead teacher and the project leaders will be scheduled in advance of each workshop, to ensure each session is tailored to the needs, interests and prior experiences of the students.

All work produced will automatically be considered for the exhibition which will take place at The Photographers' Gallery in September 2008. A resource publication and website will be made available in September 2010.

During the two subsequent years of the workshop programme, sessions will take place during all three school terms.

What will determine if our school is granted a workshop?
Schools entering will be judged on their initial application. Selectors will carefully consider all responses listed on the entry forms and select ten schools from the listed regions. Decisions will be based on each applicant's plans or desires for fieldtrip work during the Spring and Summer terms as well as where and how the workshop might best play a role. Schools that are not awarded a workshop this year are welcome to reapply the following year.