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Geography

We believe Geography encourages students to be world curious and successful global citizens.

In our 7-year curriculum, students deepen their knowledge and understanding of physical and human features and processes, how these interact and how they change over time. As a result of the curriculum students will become aware of increasingly complex systems and their local and global significance. Students will develop not only their geographical skills, but also through pertinent questions be able to articulate and make well-informed decisions.

We aim to prepare students for their role in the wider world and be the bridge between the sciences and arts. Through the thread of sustainable development at the heart of our curriculum, this enables students to consider global issues through the lens of the present and those of the future. Through fieldwork opportunities it “connects children to their local environment, creates memories and helps develop identity” (RGS) and “provides a 'real-world' opportunity for students to develop and extend their geographical thinking” (Geographical Association), which is allowed to flourish when completing their NEA in Year 13, alongside this building on personal skills of leadership, creativity and communication.

“We need young people to become knowledgeable about, and positively engaged with, how human and physical world’s interact – work that starts in the geography classroom” Steve Brace, The Guardian – November 2024.

Key Stage 3 students will study:

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3
Year 7	What it means to be a geographer? How can coastlines be protected?	What is the difference between weather and climate? How have physical and human processes shaped Africa and its people?	Are the benefits worth living with volcanic hazards? Do tourists cause more harm than good?
Year 8	Can urban areas ever be fully sustainable? How have physical and human processes shaped Asia and its people?	Who does globalisation really benefit? How risky are earthquakes? (due to curriculum changes pupils 2024-25 will study volcanoes)	How has water and ice shaped the land?
Year 9	Why is South America important? Why is it important to have global awareness?	What is the link between extreme weather and climate change? How can challenges in North America be tacked and opportunities celebrated?	How effective are strategies at reducing the development gap? Is physical geography a cause or consequence of conflict?

In Key Stage 4 students will study AQA GCSE Geography:

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Year 10

Paper 2B Changing Economic World

Paper 1A Natural Hazards

Paper 1C Rivers

Paper 3 Physical Fieldwork – Carding Mill Valley

Paper 2A Urban Issues and Challenges

Year 11

Paper 1C Coastal Landscapes

Paper 3 Human Fieldwork - Birmingham

Paper 1B Living World

Paper 2C Resource Management - Water

Paper 3 Issue Evaluation

In Key Stage 5 students will study A Level Geography AQA for Year 12 and OCR for Year 13:

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Year 12

Paper 1b Coastal Landscapes
Paper 2b Changing Places
Paper 2c Contemporary Urban Environments

Paper 1b Coastal Management & Paper 1a Water Cycle
Paper 2b Changing Places – Place studies & Paper 2a Global Systems
Paper 2 Contemporary Urban Environments

Paper 1a Carbon Cycles
Paper 2a Global Systems and Governance
Paper 2c Contemporary Urban Environments (Synoptic)

Year 13

Paper 3 Hazards & Climate Change (Current Y13 Only)
NEA preparation & data collection/ presentation/ conclusions

Paper 3 Hazards & Climate Change (Y13 only)
NEA completion and submission

If you wish to receive further information regarding our Geography curriculum, please send an email to admin@coundoncourt.org and mark it FAO Ms H Pipe, Lead Practitioner for Humanities.

Subject Documents	Date
Geography	22nd Dec 2022	Download
Geog Y12 to 13	22nd Dec 2022	Download

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