Geography

Assessment

Landscape Systems (22%) Students will explore landscapes as systems; how landforms developed and the influences of both climate and human activity on them. Changing Spaces: Making Places and Human Interactions (22%) Students will explore the relationships and connections between people, the economy and society and how these contribute to creating places. Placemaking projects are also explored, considering the meanings and representations created and attached to places. Geographical Debates (36%) Optionality Students will study two of the five geographical debates listed below. Geographical skills will be taught and examined through each topic. Climate Change, Future of Food, Disease Dilemmas, Hazardous Earth, Exploring Oceans One non-examined assessment (N.E.A) (20%). Students will participate in a three-day residential fieldwork during Year 12, typically to Devon or South Wales, which will aid learning in both human and physical geography whilst also developing fieldwork skills. In Year 13, students will complete a study into a geographical area of their choice. This may focus on a topic that the learner finds particularly interesting or a topic with geographical links that they would like to pursue at degree level.