Areas Studied Key Stage 3
Year 7: Geography is integrated with Creative Curriculum. Topics covered include, Atlas skills, Fair Trade, Multicultural London (including fieldwork visit to the London Docklands), Settlement Studies focussed on Rochester (including fieldwork visit to Rochester) and incorporating map work skills.
Year 8: Knowledge of world map & review of atlas skills, Population Studies, Peru (incorporating studies of desert, mountain and tropical rainforest ecosystem, Lima and the shanty town problem), Japan (incorporating studies of city and countryside issues and earths forces introducing the problems related to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions).
Year 9: Development issues contrasting areas from economically more and less developed parts of the world. This includes issues such as disease, access to fresh water, population (including the China One Child Policy) and crime etc. Physical Geography focusing on a study of Rivers.
Areas Studied Key Stage 4 Specification: AQA ‘A’
6 Units are studied over the two years. These are tested by two 1 ½ hour written examinations in Year 11 and constitute 75% of the GCSE.
Controlled Assessment constitutes 25% of the GCSE and is focussed on coastal geography.
Year 10:
Unit 1 – Tourism
Unit 2 – The coastal zone
Unit 3 – Changing urban environments
Year 11:
Unit 4 – The restless earth
Unit 5 – Population change
Unit 6 – Living world
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News and Events:
GCSE ‘drop-in’ clinic / home learning / revision sessions will be available every Wednesday afternoon from 3.15-4.00 in M2 with KSM and Thursday afternoon from 3.15 – 4.00 in M1 with LMC.
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