Year Seven

Autumn

Our Dangerous World:
This unit will introduce map skills & the fundamental physical processes that underpin Earth.

Spring

Going Green:
Introduce the complexities surrounding sustainability.
You will have the opportunity to prepare, present & debate. You will practise tone of voice, appropriate body language and use evidence to support your point of view.

Impossible Places:
This unit is designed to cover breadth of place studies. You will identify how & why different places vary.

Summer

Changing Faces, Shaping Places
This module focuses on the theme of migration, the permanent or semi-permanent change of a person’s place of residence or simply, the movement of people from one place to another.

Year Eight

Autumn

Population Change:
Introducing the concept of population change. You will learn core population theory. You will learn the theory of migration & the reasons why people migrate between countries & regions. This theory will be applied to specific places so that you can apply your understanding to current geographical issues.

Spring

Globalisation:
Introduction to the concept of globalisation & making links to how the world has become more global. Identify negatives & positives of globalisation. Learn about working conditions in sweatshops & how people live at different levels of development. Sustainable development is a strong theme throughout all the topics.

Aspiring Asia:
Focus on skills taught through place. The continent of Asia is wide & varying, this unit is designed to challenge your conceptions & misconceptions of the continent. In this unit you will build cartographic skills, learn about ecosystems, begin to look at political geography and plan & lead a geographical enquiry into India.

Summer

Riveting Rivers:
Introduction to natural processes that take place around the world. Broadening knowledge of the physical processes that take place around you every day. Explore the water cycle & its importance around the world, the process of erosion, transportation and deposition in a river. Develop your understanding of time & space and learn key cartographic skills and develop your written skills. There is a focus on flooding and the different ST/LT impacts flooding can cause in HIC and LIC.

Year Nine

Autumn

Development:
Introducing the concept of development links. Specific focus on Haiti as a case study. An understanding of trade and how it links to development. You learn how development can be more sustainable across the world.

Spring

Weather & Climate:
This topic gives you an understanding of atmospheric processes & an understanding of weather systems in the UK. Exploring extreme weather and its impacts on people and the environment.
You will investigate microclimates & conduct an investigation around the school recording microclimates.

Africa:
Study of the historical contrasts within & throughout Africa You will explore the economic, political & cultural dynamics of various African countries and develop your sense of time and space. Learn to describe & interpret ‘human development index’s’.
Use GIS in order to identify & plot climate data. Focus on social, economic, environmental & political issues.

Summer

Colossal Coasts:
An introduction to the natural processes that take place around the world with specific focus on UK landscapes with a specific focus on coastal environments. Learn about the types of features that erosion, transportation & deposition creates, such as caves, arches, stacks, stumps, wave cut platforms, beaches, spits etc. Research different types of coastal protection & interpreting which will be best for the specific economic, social & environmental situation of each location.

Year Ten

Autumn

The Challenge of Natural Hazards:
Introduction to map skills and the fundamental physical processes that underpin Earth. Develop understanding of planet Earth’s fragile environments.

Spring

Urban Issues and Challenges:
Introduction to global patterns of urban change:

• Urban trends in different parts of the world including HICs and LICs.
• Factors affecting the rate of urbanisation – migration (push – pull theory), natural increase. The emergence of mega-cities.
• Overview of the distribution of population & the major cities in the UK and a case study of a major city in the UK.

Summer

The Challenge of Resource Management – Food:
Focuses on the significance of food, water & energy to economic and social well-being.
An overview of global inequalities in the supply and consumption of resources. An overview of resources in relation to the UK. Links made with the changing economic world.
Focusing on food, areas of surplus and deficit. Strategies to increase food supply, Moving on a sustainable resource future. Theme of sustainability strongly runs through this topic and all topics studied throughout the course.

Physical landscapes in the UK:
Focuses on UK landscapes & fundamental concepts in physical geography. Overview of the location of major upland/lowland areas and river systems.
An understanding of coastal processes such as types of erosion, transportation and deposition. Both coastal and river landscapes focus on management strategies and how they can be sustainable with the use of case studies.
Field work.

Year Eleven

Autumn

Physical landscapes in the UK:
Focuses on UK landscapes & fundamental concepts in physical geography
(Fieldwork if possible)

The Living World:
Focuses on an example of a small-scale UK ecosystem, to illustrate the concept of inter-relationships within a natural system, an understanding of producers, consumers, decomposers, food chain, food web and nutrient cycle.
Overview of the distribution and characteristics of large scale, natural, global ecosystems. The physical characteristics of a tropical rainforests and hot deserts.

Spring

The Living World:
Challenges and opportunities, impacts and sustainable development. Links made to economic development and physical processes that drives the planet.

Changing Economic World:
Designed to cover breadth of place and global economic development. You will focus on ways of classifying parts of the world according to their level of economic development and quality of life. You will explore different economic and social measures of development.

Summer

Changing Economic World (Spr2 & Sum1)
You will make links between stages of the Demographic Transition Model and the level of development. Students will identify strategies used to reduce the development gap. Case study material used in LIC/NEE. Along with focus on economic futures in the UK.

(Summer 2)
Summer Exams / Revision