Geography

Who works in the geography department?

Mrs Rachel Robinson - Geography Teacher

Mr Andrew Richardson - Geography Teacher

In key stage 3 (years 7 and 8), students gain a high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching will equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the frameworks and approaches that explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time.

The curriculum for geography aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes.
   
• Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time.
   
• Collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes.
   
• Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

• Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

On the KS4 (GCSE) curriculum students will study a course based on a balanced framework of physical and human geography. It allows students to investigate the link between the two themes, and approach and examine the battles between the man-made and natural worlds. 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,

Students who complete the course will have the skills and experience to progress onto A-level and beyond.

In addition to the academic curriculum the geography department also runs numerous extra –curricular activities that include the John Muir Award and the Duke of Edinburgh Award.

http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/geography/gcse/geography-8035

https://www.johnmuirtrust.org/john-muir-award/schools-and-colleges

https://www.dofe.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/zrw76sg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/