Geography

Exam Syllabus & Revision: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-8035
Intent:
In Geography, we are committed to ensuring that ALL students:
- Engage and learn about the world they live in, regardless of their ability or socio-economic background
- Show continuous progress and achieve their full potential
- Enjoy the process
Our students will become global citizens, who can be:
- Confident working independently or in a team
- Literate in how they express their understanding of the world
- Numerate, analytical and creative so they can become problem solvers in a world beset with problems
- Reflective and evaluative so they can develop and progress
- Employable across society, and have access to any career with a broad range of transferable skills
- Environmentally conscious and appreciative of the wider cultural and historical precedents.
Implementation:
We offer a rigorous, creative and broad curriculum which has been meticulously mapped to help students achieve their best outcomes across KS3, KS4 and KS5. Our schemes of work are founded in sound academic research and evidence-based teaching. Lessons and outcomes are high quality, because of quality first teaching.

We instill a passion for our subject by ensuring consistency of experience across each year group, building up over time a sense of scale about place. Year 7’s focus on the local, before year 8 thinking more regionally and then in Year 9 the focus is on global issues and ideas.

These concepts are expertly explained, modelled and presented; students have opportunities for independent, paired and group learning; questioning is used expertly along with deliberate practice. We have developed a system of feedforward and feedback in our assessment model, allowing pupils to develop the skills required in a knowledge-based curriculum that ensures pupils are constantly making progress.

In KS3, 4 and 5 students are able to take part in fieldwork in school, and externally.
Impact:
Students in Geography have very successful outcomes. We carefully measure and track progress for all students by ensuring every child has the opportunity to excel across a range of skills. The skills embedded at KS3 serve them well into KS4 and 5, with a focus on knowledge, understanding, application, evaluation and analysis.

Geography has a successful legacy of students continuing their studies beyond KS4 and 5, and we have had many former students return to the school to complete their teacher training in Geography and other subjects.

KS3 Geography

Our KS3 curriculum is designed to inspire curiosity and fascination about the world, that students can take forward through their lives. Our curriculum is knowledge rich, with the aim of enriching our students understanding of the world’s diverse places, people and processes.

The aim of our KS3 curriculum is to ensure that ALL students develop a contextual knowledge of place, getting students to think locally at the beginning of the key stage and then broadening that to a global outlook by the end of KS3.

Students will understand the different processes that create different features and landforms around the world, and be able to make links between them in terms of variations over space and time.

Students will develop and become competent in a range of geographical skills, such as the ability to interpret resources such as maps, diagrams and photographs. They will be able to communicate geographical information through numeracy, as well as geographical information systems. Students will also experience fieldwork, where they can collect, analyse and communicate a range of data that will allow them to deepen their understanding of the geographical processes.

KS4 Geography

Our KS4 curriculum is an exciting and relevant curriculum, within a context of a balanced framework of physical and human themes and investigates the link between them.

In Year 10 and 11, students will travel the world from their classroom, exploring case studies in the United Kingdom (UK), higher income countries (HICs), newly emerging economies (NEEs) and lower income countries (LICs). Topics of study include climate change, poverty, deprivation, global shifts in economic power and the challenge of sustainable resource use. Students are also encouraged to understand their role in society, by considering different viewpoints, values and attitudes.

Students will develop and demonstrate a range of geographical skills, including cartographic, graphical, numerical and statistical skills, throughout their KS4 study. Additionally, the KS4 curriculum allows the students to develop skills in understanding and using qualitative and quantitative data and also developing their literacy skills to formulate enquiry and argument.

Information for year 9 students, who are currently considering their GCSE options for next year.

Geography is a facilitating subject which addresses a wide range of dynamic issues. In the 21st Century the role of the geographer has become more important in society. The Covid-19 pandemic is a current situation that can be analysed and investigated through the ideas and concepts we learn in geography. Even before this pandemic, discussions on sustainability and the way we deal with environmental issues are still seen as one of the greatest challenges facing the world. Over the course of many decades issues that have dominated our conscious minds such as war in the Middle East, deforestation in the Amazon and the exponential growth of world population has led to Geography being seen as a subject that is highly regarded by universities and employers. The ideas, concepts and skills that we learn at GCSE Geography will stay with you throughout your life and equip you well in any job/careers that you wish to pursue.

Curriculum Overview by Year Group and Term

Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Map Skills		Tourism		Coastal Landscapes

Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Population		Extreme Weather		Geography of Crime

Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Development		Natural Hazards		Global Issues

Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Hazards		Living World		Physical Landscapes: Coasts / Rivers	Fieldwork

Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4	Term 5	Term 6
Urban Environments		Economic World	Resources / Pre Release	Revision

Exam Syllabus & RevisionInformation, support & resources
Intent
In Geography, we are committed to ensuring that ALL students:
- Engage and learn about the world they live in, regardless of their ability or socio-economic background
- Show continuous progress and achieve their full potential
- Enjoy the process
Our students will become global citizens, who can be:
- Confident working independently or in a team
- Literate in how they express their understanding of the world
- Numerate, analytical and creative so they can become problem solvers in a world beset with problems
- Reflective and evaluative so they can develop and progress
- Employable across society, and have access to any career with a broad range of transferable skills
- Environmentally conscious and appreciative of the wider cultural and historical precedents.
Implementation
We offer a rigorous, creative and broad curriculum which has been meticulously mapped to help students achieve their best outcomes across KS3, KS4 and KS5. Our schemes of work are founded in sound academic research and evidence-based teaching. Lessons and outcomes are high quality, because of quality first teaching.

We instill a passion for our subject by ensuring consistency of experience across each year group, building up over time a sense of scale about place. Year 7’s focus on the local, before year 8 thinking more regionally and then in Year 9 the focus is on global issues and ideas.

These concepts are expertly explained, modelled and presented; students have opportunities for independent, paired and group learning; questioning is used expertly along with deliberate practice. We have developed a system of feedforward and feedback in our assessment model, allowing pupils to develop the skills required in a knowledge-based curriculum that ensures pupils are constantly making progress.

In KS3, 4 and 5 students are able to take part in fieldwork in school, and externally.
Impact
Students in Geography have very successful outcomes. We carefully measure and track progress for all students by ensuring every child has the opportunity to excel across a range of skills. The skills embedded at KS3 serve them well into KS4 and 5, with a focus on knowledge, understanding, application, evaluation and analysis.

Geography has a successful legacy of students continuing their studies beyond KS4 and 5, and we have had many former students return to the school to complete their teacher training in Geography and other subjects.

Geography

Geography

KS3 Geography

KS4 Geography

Information for year 9 students, who are currently considering their GCSE options for next year.

Curriculum Overview by Year Group and Term

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11