Geography

“The future of humanity and indeed all life on earth depends on us.”

David Attenborough

The Geography Curriculum aims to embrace and empower pupils’ understanding of our planet’s future and the barriers we face together, developing an insight of our role in conservation. Geography at Finch Woods Academy strives to inspire students to become global citizens, who advocate for change; exploring their own place in the world and their values and responsibilities to other people, to the environment, and to the sustainability of the planet.

The geography curriculum is designed to give all students the confidence and experience to help inform and shape ideas; investigating human and physical strands of the multi-faceted subject. This will enable students to become global citizens and have the cultural literacy to be role models for the future and set a trail for others to emulate.

Geography offers the opportunity to study a range of topics that investigate the physical processes of our planet, human societies, and the economic and environmental challenges within a local, national, and global context. This gives students the confidence to interact with the wider world, leading to fulfilled and positive life experiences. The curriculum encourages students to ask questions and develop critical thinking skills.

We believe that students deserve a broad, progressive and ambitious Geography curriculum, rich in skills and knowledge.

Our Geography curriculum will give students the opportunity to:

• develop an understanding of physical and human environments and processes;
• develop an understanding of the diverse character of places and landscapes;
• develop an understanding of interactions and interrelationships on the Earth’s surface;
• demonstrate knowledge of locations, places, processes, environments and different scales;
• access a range of Geographical concepts within context that can be understood at various levels of sophistication.
• understand concepts and how they are used in relation to places, environments and processes; the interrelationships between places, environments and processes;
• apply knowledge and understanding to interpret, analyse and evaluate geographical information and issues to make judgements
• allow students to show breadth of understanding and evaluate appreciation of the interrelationships between different aspects of geographical study;
• develop and demonstrate a range of geographical skills, including cartographic, graphical, numerical and statistical;
• use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view analyse and interpret places and data;
• complete programmes of fieldwork; enquiries which include the use of primary data taking place outside the classroom and school grounds.  
• develop a rich and deep subject knowledge

At Finch Woods Academy, we endeavour to foster a lifelong love of geography through varied activities both inside and outside the classroom. We prepare well-rounded, resilient students equipped with both geographical knowledge and transferable skills; ready for the world post-16, both as future contributors to the professional world and as informed, compassionate members of society.

Key Stage 3 Curriculum

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Careers and Geography