Geography

Half-term 1: Map Skills

Half-term 2: Population

Half-term 3: Weather and Climate

Half-term 4: Rivers 

Half-term 5: Economic Activity

Half-term 6: Asia and Russia

A successful scholar after Year 7 will:

• Identify the different continents and oceans
• Use a range of map skills, including direction, height, scale and grid references
• Understand how populations change over time and how population can be managed
• Understand river processes, landforms and how rivers can be managers
• Understand different employment structures and how economies change over time
• Locate countries in Asia 
• Understand the key opportunities and challenges within key Asian countries

Half-term 1: Tourism

Half-term 2: Restless Earth

Half-term 3: Population and Urbanisation

Half-term 4: Hot Deserts

Half-term 5: Asia (India and China)

Half-term 6: Rivers

A successful scholar after Year 8 will:

• Understand the importance and impacts of tourism in a range of countries
• Understand the impacts of earthquakes and volcanoes
• Have a detailed knowledge of hot deserts including location, characteristics, oppourtunities and challenges
• Locate countries in Asia
• Understand the key oppourtunities and challenges within key Asian countries
• Understand river processes, landforms and river management

Half-term 1: Russia

Half-term 2: Glacial landscapes

Half-term 3: Resources in crisis

Half-term 4: Weather and Climate

Half-term 5: Climate change

Half-term 6: Global challenge – The Anthropocene

A successful scholar after Year 9 will:

• Locate Russia and understand the physical and human geography of the country
• Understand glacial processes, landforms and how glacial change over time
• Understand the difference between weather and climate, how weather is measured and challenges weather hazards present
• Understand the causes and impacts of climate change, mitigation and adaptation
• Have an understanding of the key global challenges facing the planet

Half-terms 1 and 2: The Challenge of Natural Hazards (paper 1)

Half-term 3: The Living World (paper 1)

Half-term 4: Physical Landscapes of the UK (paper 1)

Half-term 5: Physical Landscapes of the UK (paper 1), Fieldwork Burbage Brook river investigation

Half-term 6: Urban Issues and Challenges (paper 2)

A successful scholar after Year 10 will:

• Have a good understanding of the natural hazards 
• Characteristics, oppourtunites and challenges in rainforests and hot deserts
• River processes, landforms and management
• Have completed fieldwork including the collection of primary data

Half-term 1: Physical Landscapes of the UK, Fieldwork Burbage Brook investigation

Half-term 2: Urban issues and challenges, The changing economic world, Fieldwork – Regeneration

Half-term 3: The changing economic world

Half-terms 4 and 5: Revision

A successful scholar after Year 11 will:

• Have completed fieldwork including the collection of primary data
• Understand patterns of urban change
• Understand the concept of sustainable urban living
• Understand global variations in economic development and quality of life, causes, consequences and soloutions
• Understand how the UK economy is changing