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Geography KS4 | Years 10 & 11

Subject Content

Geography enables a variety of teaching and learning approaches. Geography is exciting and relevant and gives  a balanced framework of physical and human themes and investigates the link between them. Students will travel the world from their classroom, exploring case studies in the United Kingdom (UK), higher income countries (HICs), newly emerging economies (NEEs) and lower income countries (LICs). Topics of study include climate change, poverty, deprivation, global shifts in economic power and the challenge of sustainable resource use. Students are also encouraged to understand their role in society, by considering different viewpoints, values and attitudes.

Students will be required to complete two geography field visits over the course of the 2-year GCSE Geography programme.


Assessment Details

To be successful, students will need to be able to:

  • Develop and extend their knowledge of locations, places, environments and processes, and of different scales, including global; and of social, political and cultural contexts (know geographical material) 
  • Gain understanding of the interactions between people and environments, change in places and processes over space and time, and the interrelationship between geographical phenomena at different scales and in different contexts (think like a geographer) 
  • Develop and extend their competence in a range of skills including those used in fieldwork, in using maps and GIS and in researching secondary evidence, including digital sources; and develop their competence in applying sound enquiry and investigative approaches to questions and hypotheses (study like a geographer) 
  • Apply geographical knowledge, understanding, skills and approaches appropriately and creatively to real world contexts, including fieldwork, and to contemporary situations and issues; and develop well-evidenced arguments drawing on their geographical knowledge and understanding (applying geography)

What can I do to support my child at home?

Encourage and help develop the child's passion and academic progress in the subject.  This could be achieved by visits to key geographical locations, museums and exhibitions.  In addition, this can be achieved by exposure to media sources like television documentaries, TED talks and BBC Bitesize.


Recommended Resources for the Course

Websites

Teaching Staff

Head of Geography

Mr Pye - apye@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk

Teachers of Geography

Mrs Knightley - aknightely@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk

Mrs Chapman - gchapman@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk

Mr Youngs - ayoungs@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk

Mr Brokenbrow - jbrokenbrow@cottesloe.bucks.sch.uk