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Geography
What will your child study?
In the Middle School pupils study the AQA ‘A’ GCSE course which we believe is exciting and contemporary while also being rigorous and challenging and provides an excellent platform for A level studies. The GCSE is evenly balanced between Human and Physical Geography and has embedded skills components. In Year 11 there are two written exams accounting for 75% of the GCSE result with the remaining 25% attributable to the controlled assessment project in Year 11.
We begin the GCSE Geography course in Year 9 and pupils decide during this year if they wish to continue with the subject to GCSE. Typically two-thirds of the year group opt to take Geography for GCSE.
| Year 9 |
| Ice on the Land, Changing Urban Environments and The Development Gap |
| Year 10 |
| Water on the Land, Population Change, The Coastal Zone and Tourism |
| Year 11 |
| Pupils complete their Controlled Assessment Project (all undertaken in lesson time during the Michaelmas Term) and they study the final topic, The Challenge of Weather and Climate |
How will they be assessed?
Pupils will be assessed during the three years through marked homework and end of topic GCSE standard tests.
