Our AS and A level Geography specifications provide a dynamic, contemporary, and exciting opportunity for students to engage with the world around them. Our specifications inspire a love of geography for lifelong learning, drawing on issues that are relevant to a student’s own learning of the subject in a variety of contexts. Our AS and A level Geography specifications have been designed to strengthen geographical and fieldwork skills gained at GCSE and delve more deeply into content. Glaciated Landscapes • Factors affecting landscapes. • Landform development. • Influence of climate change. • Impact of human activity. Changing Spaces Making Places • Two contrasting places at a local scale. • How place is understood and represented. • Economic change and social inequality, with players involved. • Place-making processes in creating places. Exploring Oceans • The Ocean Floor • Ocean resources • Humans’ use of Oceans • Pollution of our Oceans Earth’s Life Support Systems • Importance of water and carbon to life on Earth • Case studies of tropical rainforest and Arctic tundra • Change over time • Links and interdependence between the cycles Global Connections • Migration • Human Rights Hazardous Earth • Earthquakes • Volcanoes
Five GCSES at grades 9-5, which must include grade 9-5 in GCSE English Language and Mathematics. GCSE graded 9-6 in Geography.
Component 1 Section A Landscape Systems - Glaciation Section B Earth’s Life Support Systems. 1hour - 30minutes - 22% Component 2 Section A Changing Spaces; Making Places. Section B Global Connections - Human Rights and Migration 1hour - 30minutes - 22% Component 3 Exploring Oceans Hazardous Earth 2 hours - 30 minutes - 36% Component 4 Non-examined assessment, which is an independent geographical investigation conducted by each candidate based on primary and secondary data. 20%
About Education Provider
| Region | East Midlands |
| Local Authority | Derby |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Pastures Hill, Littleover, Derby, DE23 4BZ |
Our AS and A level Geography specifications provide a dynamic, contemporary, and exciting opportunity for students to engage with the world around them. Our specifications inspire a love of geography for lifelong learning, drawing on issues that are relevant to a student’s own learning of the subject in a variety of contexts. Our AS and A level Geography specifications have been designed to strengthen geographical and fieldwork skills gained at GCSE and delve more deeply into content. Glaciated Landscapes • Factors affecting landscapes. • Landform development. • Influence of climate change. • Impact of human activity. Changing Spaces Making Places • Two contrasting places at a local scale. • How place is understood and represented. • Economic change and social inequality, with players involved. • Place-making processes in creating places. Exploring Oceans • The Ocean Floor • Ocean resources • Humans’ use of Oceans • Pollution of our Oceans Earth’s Life Support Systems • Importance of water and carbon to life on Earth • Case studies of tropical rainforest and Arctic tundra • Change over time • Links and interdependence between the cycles Global Connections • Migration • Human Rights Hazardous Earth • Earthquakes • Volcanoes
Five GCSES at grades 9-5, which must include grade 9-5 in GCSE English Language and Mathematics. GCSE graded 9-6 in Geography.
Component 1 Section A Landscape Systems - Glaciation Section B Earth’s Life Support Systems. 1hour - 30minutes - 22% Component 2 Section A Changing Spaces; Making Places. Section B Global Connections - Human Rights and Migration 1hour - 30minutes - 22% Component 3 Exploring Oceans Hazardous Earth 2 hours - 30 minutes - 36% Component 4 Non-examined assessment, which is an independent geographical investigation conducted by each candidate based on primary and secondary data. 20%