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.