Geography

Course summary

Our Curriculum aims to inspire a curiosity and fascination of the natural world within our students, and to embed a lifelong passion for geography. In turn, this aims to encourage a high uptake in the subject at KS4 and KS5, as well as beyond school both in terms of formal University education and as more informal long-term interest in geography. Moreover, our curriculum aims to develop well-rounded students who have a broad understanding of the world they live in, have deepened their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. The aim is to foster a passion that will enable them to maximise their potential. The Geography Curriculum embeds the knowledge, understanding and skills to provide a framework and approach that will explain how the earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time. Our curriculum strongly serves to reiterate the core school values of respect, kindness, ambition, optimism and honesty. As well as developing students’ academic knowledge, we aim to develop students’ understanding of the wider world, helping them to grasp how the world has evolved over time and how the country that we live in has been shaped by physical and human processes and overall interaction. Alongside this, the curriculum develops a cultural understanding of other societies, aiming to enhance students’ cultural capital and wider worldliness.