Geography

Our Vision: The vision of Nailsea Geography department is to deliver an outstanding Geography education which will stimulate students’ curiosity and fascination about the world in which they live.

Students will be equipped with both knowledge and skills about diverse places, people, resources, and natural and human environments, thereby enhancing our student’s sense of responsibility for the care of the earth and its people.

The curriculum that we offer at KS3 is topical and relevant and aims to create enthusiastic and passionate geographers well placed to continue their studies into key stage 4. Numeracy and literacy skills are embedded throughout the topics and field work follows the enquiry process preparing students for fieldwork at GCSE.

Year 7:

Introduction to Geography.
Map skills
Weather and you.
Africa and a study of Kenya.
People and Places
Fieldwork (joint trip with History): Chepstow, Geographers complete fieldwork on what makes a place)

Year 8:

Tourism, Good or Bad?
Rivers: Watery World.
Environments: Polar and desert.
The Chinese are Coming
Fieldwork (Joint trip with History): Arnos Vale Cemetery. Geographers complete work on comparing environments.

Year 9:

Risky World (Tectonics).
Indigenous People.
Going Global.
Population and migration
Glaciation.
Fieldwork. Nailsea Town Centre. The impact of globalisation on Nailsea town centre.

KS4 GCSE Geography

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