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Geography
Exam Board: AQA
Course: GCSE Geography 8035
Members of Department:
Mrs L. Farrell & Mrs J. Wilson, Joint Head of Geography
Mr. J. Webb
VISION
The department consider students as geographers and responsible citizens and design their PoS around students becoming citizens who are knowledgeable and respectful of their environment and the wider world.
INTRODUCTION
Geography straddles the divide between the Arts and the Sciences and therefore combines well with almost all other GCSE subjects. Geography students have access to a wide range of possible career and higher education opportunities such as town and community planning, surveying, environmental consultation, market research, tourism, etc. Students learn and use a variety of transferable skills throughout the course. These skills are great demand both in further education and the world of work.
programme of study
Each subject programme of study will:
- Provide a clear and coherent learning journey
- Foster subject-based understanding of new knowledge, concepts and methods
- Ensure students acquire knowledge and give opportunities for recall and application of this knowledge so that fluency is developed
- Require students to think and reason for themselves
- Explanations and resources enable students to engage with and master learning
- Learning should develop a depth of understanding that brings richness to the subject but also a breadth of understanding that enriches wider life and learning
- Develop a readiness for the next stage: be this the next lesson, the next unit of work, the next year or key stage; it prepares students for both academic, A Level, and future degree study, or vocational learning
- Contain appropriate, regular and robust assessment methods for measuring student progress and to allow intervention where progress is not as expected.
In order to see an overview of the sequence and progression of learning please see their Programme of Study:
GCSE Geography Programme of Study
TRIPS AND VISITS
Year 7 – Gipping Valley River Study and Ipswich CBD Redevelopment study
Year 8 – Southwold Coastal Erosion and Management
Year 9 – Tourism in Aldeburgh
Year 10 – Coastal Issues at Walton-on-the-Naze
GCSE International Residential (curriculum links) Iceland (2015-17), California, USA (2018), The Azores (2020) and The Lake District (2022)
Year 11 – Quality of Living Study in an Urban Area
KEY STAGE 3
KS3 pupils are taught Geography twice per week in two discreet 50 minute lessons.
Year 7
- What is Geography?
- Mapwork
- Settlement – where do we live?
- The British Isles
- Rivers
Year 8
- Volcanoes and Earthquakes
- Weather & Climate
- Ecosystems
- Brazil
- Coasts
- Energy
Year 9
- Tourism
- Population and Development
- Globalisation
- Resource Management – water and energy
- Geographical Fieldwork Skills
KEY STAGE 4
KS4 pupils are taught in Option groups for 150 minutes each week. These lessons generally
consist of one single 50 minute lesson, and one double 100 minute lesson.
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This specification recognises the vital role Geography has in the 21st curriculum by offering students a highly relevant and exciting programme where teaching, learning and assessment are interdependent. The focus of this course is to study Geography through a balance of human and physical themes. It enables students to appreciate the complexity of our world, and the diversity of its environments, economies and cultures and to use this knowledge to consider issues of sustainability and awareness of social and spatial inequalities. In addition, it places focus on students’ understanding that different viewpoints, values and attitudes are held on many geographical issues, and challenges them to consider their role in society and their part in creating positive geographical futures. |
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OVERVIEW: |
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Unit 1: Living with the physical environment · The challenge of natural hazards – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tropical storms, extreme weather, climate change. · The Living world – ecosystems, tropical rainforests, hot deserts. · Physical landscapes in the UK –coastal and river landscapes. |
Unit 2: Challenges in the human environment · Urban issues and challenges – · The changing economic world – the development gap, Nigeria a Newly- Emerging economy, the changing UK economy. · The challenge of resource management – resource, water and energy management. |
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Unit 3: Geographical applications · Issue evaluation · Fieldwork (Human and Physical Enquiries) Geographical skills - assessed in all examinations |
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ASSESSMENT: |
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Paper 1: Living with the physical environment Written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes 88 marks (including 3 marks for SPGST) 35% of GCSE
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Paper 2: Challenges in the human environment Written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes 88 marks (including 3 marks for SPGST) 35% of GCSE |
Paper 3: Issue evaluation, fieldwork, geographical skills Written exam: 1 hour 76 marks (including 6 marks for SPGST) 30% of GCSE Linked to pre-release resources. |
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