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Geography Curriculum Information

Geography is taught by an enthusiastic and dedicated team. Students learn about a wide variety of physical, human and environmental geographical themes following the National Curriculum programme of study.

Year 7

1. Atlas skills: Countries and continents; regions; latitude and longitude.
2. Coasts: Coastal processes and management.
3. Map skills and the British Isles: Symbols; grid references; direction; scale; the physical and human Geography of the British Isles.
4. Ecosystems: Rainforests and Polar regions
5. Development Dynamics: Why countries are considered more or less developed; issues facing less developed countries such as rural-urban migration and shanty towns.

Year 8

1. Global Conflicts: Wars and conflict over resources (land, energy and water)
2. Natural hazards: The structure of the Earth and tectonic hazards, how they are caused; how humans try to limit the effects
3. World population: 7 billion and counting; which countries have the most and least people and why?
4. Weather and climate: Factors affecting our climate; forecasting; climate change.
5. Rivers and flooding: The River Severn; river landforms; flood management.
6. Globalisation: Why has globalisation grown?, the role of governments and TNCs and the positives and negatives of globalisation.

Year 9

Emerging economies

1. Brazil: A study of the physical and human geography of Brazil and why and how it has become an emerging economy.
2. India: A study of the physical and human geography of the India and why and how it has become an emerging economy.
3. China: A study of the physical and human geography of the China and why and how it has become an emerging economy.

Global Geographical issues

1. Hazardous Earth: The global circulation of the atmosphere, detailed study of tropical cyclones and a detailed study of tectonic activity
2. Development dynamics: Looking at the scale of global inequality and how it can be reduced, factors that hinder development and a detailed study of one emerging country.