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GEOGRAPHY

KEY STAGE 3 (YEARS 7 & 8)


KS3 in Geography focusses on skills based learning to both ensure development within Geography, but
also to aid other areas of students learning. For example, literacy with written tasks, numeracy with
graph interpretation and report writing skills. We cover both the physical and human aspects of
Geography with a place based focus each year where students learn all about a particular country:
America, Brazil and China.



KEY STAGE 4 (YEARS 9 EBACC, 10 & 11)
Course Title: Geography
Exam Board: Edexcel
Qualification: GCSE
About the course
Students learn aspects of both Physical and Human Geography: Human taught in year 10 and Physical in year
11. There is also a controlled assessment aspect of the course which involves students conducting primary data
collection in Stratford, and 4 weeks to write up the report.
How it is assessed
Unit 1 Dynamic Planet: Exam, 25% of overall grade
Unit 2 People and the Planet: Exam, 25% of overall grade
Unit 3 Geographical Investigation: Exam, 25% of overall grade
Unit 4 Controlled Assessment: Report, 25% of overall grade


KEY STAGE 5 (YEARS 12 & 13)
Course Title: Geography
Exam Board: Edexcel
Qualification: AS/A level

AS
About the course
There are two units, unit 1: Global Challenges and unit 2:Geographical Investigations

Unit 1 Content Summary:
The meaning, causes, impacts and management of global challenges. How we can influence global challenges
through our own lives. There are two compulsory topics that form this unit:
Topic 1: World at Risk
Topic 2: Going Global

How is it assessed?
1-hour-and-30-minute examination in two sections.
Section A: objective items, data response and short-answer questions.
Section B: choice of Going Global or World at Risk longer/guided essay questions.

Unit 2 Content Summary:
A closer look at how physical and human issues influence lives and can be managed.
Physical topic:
Crowded Coasts reveals how increasing development is testing our ability to
manage these valued environments.
Human topics
Rebranding Places focuses on how we need to re-image and regenerate rural
and urban places, using appropriate strategies.

Assessment:
1 hour 15 minutes examination in two sections.
Candidates will answer one physical question from Section A and one human question from Section B. The
questions require longer responses, each with three parts, designed to include data response, investigation and
evaluation skills and related impacts/management issues.

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