Geography
Curriculum intent
ENJOY demonstrating greater fluency with world knowledge by drawing on increasing breadth and depth of content and contexts.
ENDEAVOURing to extend from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract.
Making greater sense of the world by organising and connecting information and ideas about people, places, processes and environments
EXCEL at working with more complex information about the world, including the relevance of people’s attitudes, values and beliefs.
Through reading, increase the range and accuracy of investigative skills, and advancing their ability to select and apply these with increasing independence to geographical enquiry.
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Programmes of Study
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Links to the National Curriculum
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Geography National Curriculum Key Stage 3 |
Term Covered |
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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 |
Year 7: Europe Year 8: Africa Year 9: Asia & Middle East All topics contain Human and Physical Geography and the interrelationships between them |
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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 |
Embedded throughout every topic |
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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 |
Embedded throughout all topics Y7 unit on Fieldwork to be developed for 2021/2022 |
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Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) |
Embedded throughout all topics |
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Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length. |
Embedded throughout all topics |
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LOCATION KNOWLEDGE |
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Extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East, focusing on their environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities |
Year 7 – Europe
Year 8 – Africa
Year 9 – Middle East & Asia
All topics listed covered (minus polar regions – will be embedded in Y7) |
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PLACE KNOWLEDGE |
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Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Africa, and of a region within Asia |
Year 8 – Africa Comparison of Nigeria and Sierra Leone in terms of development. Comparison of Sahara and Congo TRF regions Year 9 – Asia and Middle East Comparison of Mumbai and Bihar (India), Comparison of coastal and central China regions (phys and human) |
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HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY |
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Understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in: Physical geography relating to: geological timescales and plate tectonics; rocks, weathering and soils; weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present; and glaciation, hydrology and coasts Human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources |
Physical : Plate Tectonics: Y7 3, Y9 3 Weather & Climate: Y7 1, Y7 4, Hydrology: Y8 5 Rivers Coasts: Y7 4 Human: Population: Y9 1 Urbanisation: Y8 1, Y9 1 & 2 Development: Y7 2, Y8 1, Y9 1,2,4 Economic Activity: Y7 2, Y9 2 Resources: Y8 4, Y9 4 |
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Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems |
Embedded within all topics |
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GEOGRAPHICAL SKILLS AND FIELDWORK |
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Build on their knowledge of globes, maps and atlases and apply and develop this knowledge routinely in the classroom and in the field |
Term 1 and 2 Y7, then embedded throughout each topic |
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Interpret Ordnance Survey maps in the classroom and the field, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs |
Term 1 and 2 Y7 then embedded throughout each topic |
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Use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data |
Embedded Throughout |
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Use fieldwork in contrasting locations to collect, analyse and draw conclusions from geographical data, using multiple sources of increasingly complex information |
Y7 unit on Fieldwork to be developed for 2021/2022 |