St. Bonaventures Comprehensive Catholic School

Geography is about people and the environment. It includes the study of physical and human processes that shape the environment, places and patterns at the earth's surface, and the people who live there. The National Curriculum for GCSE states that:

"Geography is concerned to promote an understanding of the nature of the earth's surface and, more particularly, the character of places, the complex nature of people's relationships and interactions with their environment and the importance in human affairs of location and the spatial organisation of human activities".

Geography can help pupils make sense of their physical and human surroundings and extend their knowledge and understanding to more distant places. It helps to provide a perspective in which they can place local, national and international events and enable them to function more effectively as members of society

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Mission Statement

The Geography Department is committed to providing a relevant, exciting and accessible curriculum to pupils of all abilities and ages. It encourages the development of transferable skills, informed independent thinking and responsible Global Citizenship. It seeks to promote a positive and collaborative approach to learning.

Topics on the curriculum KS3

Local Area
Map Skills
Settlement
Weather and Climate
Coasts
Ecosystems
Population
Development and Brazil
Rivers
Tectonic Processes
Industry

KS 4 topics (Exam Syllabus GCSE Geography for WJEC B)

Challenges of living in a built environment

People and the natural worldinteractions

People and work development

KS 5 topics ( Exam syllabus AQA 2030)

* AS: Coasts ( field trip), Hydrology ( residential fieldtrip)and Human Geography

* A : Synoptic paper ( residential field trip), Skills, Physical Geography.

The Future

The Geography department intends to continue building upon it's strengths, re-inforce good practice, raise achievement and pioneer new technological activities. At present we are developing Departmental G.I.S. We are also looking into the possibility of fieldwork on the River Thames and studying Ecosystems at Kew Gardens and Tectonic processes at the Science museum. These are exciting times...