Departmental Intent:
The national and school curriculum for geography aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both
terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and
how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes - understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical
features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial
variation and change over time - are competent in the geographical skills needed to: collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through
experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical
processes; interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams,
globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS); and communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
The Geography curriculum overview can be found here:
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The KS4 course specification for Geography can be found here: GCSE B Geography | Eduqas
Bookflix is our reading incentive and is linked to rewards through achievement points and other prizes when children read specific numbers of books.
Bookflix displays are in every classroom, which gives teachers the opportunity to recommend books to read around each subject. Children should see which books are trending and newly added, just like the home screen on Netflix!
Here is the list of the current Bookflix books for the department:
How To Lie With Maps Mark Monmonier
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World Tim Marshall
Alistair Humphreys’ Great Adventurers Alistair Humphreys
The Explorer Katherine Rundell
Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making Chris Packham
The Science of The Ocean: The Secret of The Seas Revealed Chris Packham
The Hidden Lives of Trees Peter Wohlleben
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World Lawrence C. Smith