SUBJECTS » Geography

All pupils study Geography in Years 7, 8 and 9 and take-up at GCSE and AS/A Level has been good. 

In years 7, 8 and 9 there is a wide-ranging series of courses that begin in the local area and fan out to different environments and into a course of physical geography and hazards in Year 9. The GCSE course studies both human and physical geography, stressing the inter-relationships between the two. This theme is followed through in the A Level course when data handling and essay writing skills are developed.

The subject is able to utilise the adjacent computer room which is equipped with multiple PCs, networked and with full internet access. This superb facility guarantees students up-to-date information in a subject that requires accurate knowledge about the world around them.

Each classroom is equipped with blackout, VCR and OHP facilities and interactive whiteboard. The Department owns a carousel slide projector and uses an interactive whiteboard, which is proving invaluable in such an image-rich subject.

Field Work is a major part of the department’s life.  The GCSE group goes on a residential weekend on the Yorkshire Wolds and the Lower Sixth (Year 12) spends a week studying glaciers and tourism in the Swiss Alps.

 

The school has entered the geographical association Worldwise Quiz for many years (with considerable success) and has hosted the local and regional round for the last few years.