Geography

Humanities Curriculum Area

Geography is delivered to year's 7,8 and 9 by a team of specialist teachers twice a week.
Geography is a dynamic, topical and challenging subject for pupils during Key Stage 3.

The key themes of geography at key stage three are:

1.1 Place
1. Understanding the physical and human characteristics of real places.
2. Developing ‘geographical imaginations’ of places.
1.2 Space
1. Understanding the interactions between places and the networks created by flows of information, people and goods.
2. Knowing where places and landscapes are located, why they are there, the patterns and distributions they create, how and why these are changing and the implications for people.
1.3 Scale
1. Appreciating different scales – from personal and local to national, international and global.
2. Making links between scales to develop understanding of geographical ideas.
1.4 Interdependence
1. Exploring the social, economic, environmental and political connections between places.
2. Understanding the significance of interdependence in change, at all scales.
1.5 Physical and human processes
1. Understanding how sequences of events and activities in the physical and human worlds lead to change in places, landscapes and societies.
1.6 Environmental interaction and sustainable development
1. Understanding that the physical and human dimensions of the environment are interrelated and together influence environmental change.
2. Exploring sustainable development and its impact on environmental interaction and climate change.
1.7 Cultural understanding and diversity
1. Appreciating the differences and similarities between people, places, environments and cultures to inform their understanding of societies and economies.
2. Appreciating how people’s values and attitudes differ and may influence social, environmental, economic and political issues, and developing their own values and attitudes about such issues.