Geography

Teacher in Charge: Nathan Shaw

E: nshaw@bohuntworthing.com

“Many of the world’s current issues – at a global scale and locally – boil down to geography, and need the geographers of the future to help us understand them.” Michael Palin.

In Geography, our students develop confidence and resilience through our innovative curriculum and an ethos of Enjoy Respect Achieve.

Enjoy

The curriculum journey in geography is designed to develop high levels of literacy and skills needed to access place and space based issues; to foster an understanding of the key processes that underpins these, and develop deep thinking of how we interact with the world around us. Through the creation of a solution based mindset we aim to create students that are future game-changers.

Respect

Our students develop respect, confidence and resilience through learning about other global issues, countries, places, cultures and beliefs, as well as their own; which in turn develops an understanding of diversity and a sense of place in the world. Our aim is to create a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with our students for the rest of their lives.

Achieve

We help students achieve highly at KS3, KS4 and beyond, by ensuring that knowledge develops into deeper understanding through synthesising links across the topics taught, and through regular retrieval practice which is a feature in all lessons. We equip students with knowledge about diverse places, people and resources, in both natural and human environments at a range of local, regional and global scales. Our hope is to foster a sense of independence where students actively seek out new learning in the future due their own curiosity.

Geography at KS3:

Geography at KS3 is exciting and challenging, raising many geographical questions that students will want to seek answers for. Digital technology is fully integrated into lessons through the use of iPads and the enhanced learning opportunities they create. 

Students start Year 7 by developing the geographical skills required to understand the places and processes around them.  Students explore the key issues such as climate change, flooding and population growth, and explore these impacts on both the local and global scales.

Students move on in Year 8 to develop the key skills of enquiry & fieldwork.  This is a focus for the year and allows students to debate and discuss places in greater detail.  Units taught include development, coasts and weather, as well as a study of key geographical themes in a range of Asian countries, with greater investigation as to our interaction with the physical and human world. Year 8 finishes with a unit exploring the future world of geography, which is a chance for our students to learn about and debate some of the major issues facing the planet over the next decade and beyond.

Geography at KS4:

Students in KS4 study for the AQA GCSE exam over three years. The longer course allows us to study and debate a wider range of different issues at a greater depth, helping to fulfill our aim of developing a solution based mindset that will enable our students to become future game-changers.

Year 9 focuses on key environmental issues around ecosystems, rivers and the management of resources in the future.  Knowledge and skills gained during KS3 are designed to feed into the development and rigours of KS4.

In Year 10, students will look at hazards and the issues of urbanisation. The areas that they will cover include: the challenge of natural hazards, urban challenges and physical landscapes of the UK with a coastal focus.

In Year 11, students will study ‘challenges in the human environment’. They will consider the complexities of the interaction of humans, place and space; and learn about the changing economic world before studying the economies in the UK and Nigeria in detail.

Finally, students will work on Geographical Applications and gain fundamental knowledge of how to conduct fieldwork and the different types of research in different urban and rural settings. This builds on what they have completed at KS3, and the key skills and knowledge that have been developed throughout KS4.