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should inspire in pupils a curiosity Geography and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. We all know that the minute you walk out of your front door, you re looking at
“We all know that the minute you walk out of your front door, you’re looking at geography. We’re all living in a geographical world” Nicholas Crane (President RGS-IBG)
should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
At Hardenhuish we study the EDEXCEL
GEOGRAPHY Specification
Paper 1:
Assessing the physical geography content 2 hours 15 minutes 105 marks
Paper 2:
Assessing the human geography content 2 hours 15 minutes 105 marks
Paper 3
Synoptic investigation
geographical issue 2 hours 15 minutes (including 30 minutes of reading time) 70 marks
Coursework :
Independent Investigation 70 marks Internally assessed & externally moderated. 3000–4000 words
Dynamic Landscapes Dynamic Places
Hazards
and Change – Coasts
Physical Systems & sustainability Global development & connections
Insecurity
Security
Connections – Health, human rights & intervention.
Dynamic Landscapes
Topic 1: Tectonic processes and hazards – What causes tectonic hazards, the impact of tectonic activity on people, and responses to tectonic hazards
Dynamic Landscapes
Topic 2: Landscape Systems, Processes and Change – What processes are occurring at our coastlines? What risk do these pose to people? How can these risks be managed?
Topic 3: Globalisation – a study of globalisation, its causes & consequences for different people & places.
Topic 4: Shaping places – a study of how & why places are shaped & changed, the meanings & identities attached to different places & the consequences for different people. Regenerating Places.
November Year 12 : Trip to Bristol to look at areas of multiple deprivation and rebranding strategies March visit to the Dorset coast to look at coastal features and management Summer Term of year 12 a further day fieldwork to practice a range of data collection strategies linked to carbon cycling
Topic 5: Water Cycle & Water Insecurity – water cycle, human
& natural factors that impact on water cycling, consequences for water security & future water conflicts.
Topic 6: The Carbon Cycle & Energy Security – Carbon Cycle, human & natural factors impacting on the carbon cycling, the consequences for ecosystems & management strategies.
Topic 8: Superpowers – Superpowers, the reasons for shifting
economic and political power, the impacts of superpowers, influences of superpowers in governing global commons.
Topic 9: Global Development & Connections – Health, human rights & intervention. How do human rights vary from place to place? What political and military interventions take place and how successful are they?
Students complete independent fieldwork followed by a 3-4,000 word write-up.
course that interests you
investigate
collection programme
If you have studied Geography at GCSE a Grade
5 is preferred
Students who have not taken GCSE Geography
are welcome.
The bi- annual A Level/GCSE trip abroad is
scheduled to take place in October of 2019. The location is likely to be Sicily.
The UK’s official careers page states:
‘Geographers look at issues from a wide
perspective and develop a range of skills which are attractive to a very broad range of future employers’
‘No other subject can offer you such an
extensive array of skills as Geography can’.
Care about the planet? Estate Manager Forestry Ranger Environmental Consultant Pollution Analyst Conservation Officer