Welcome to the Geography Department information page.
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The
Geography Department has a wide range of courses at all exam levels
including vocational courses such as Leisure Studies and
BTEC Travel and Tourism.
The Curriculum
Key Stage 3
Across Key
Stage three, the department has developed its own schemes of
work in order to cover the National Curriculum. Some
of the topics covered include Tropical Rainforests, the Geography
of Sport, Earthquakes and Volcanoes and in depth studies of Kenya
and Japan.
Key Stage 4
Two
courses are run by the Geography Department at Key Stage 4.
GCSE Geography is studied by most students and involves two
exams and an in depth piece of coursework about tourism in Knaresborough.
As part of this coursework students spend a day in Knaresborough
gathering data.
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The
Geography Department also runs a double award vocational GCSE in
Leisure and Tourism. This involves one exam and two portfolio
units (customer service and marketing). Students studying this
course spend a day and the Royal Armouries in Leeds and a day at
Chester Zoo.
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Both
GCSE courses are run by Edexcel and GCSE Geography is specification
A. For more information please log
onto:
www.edexcel.org.uk
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The
Geography department runs AS and A2 Geography over two years.
Students follow the Edexcel Specification
B. Subjects covered include rivers, coasts, hazards
and weather and climate. Students also undertake
an environmental investigation and a research essay.
As part of the AS course students spend a weekend
in the Yorkshire Dales and also visit a forest
ecosystem to study its structure and functioning.
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In Geography, 9Y2 had to create a blog about the recent earthquake
in Lincolnshire. The winners were: Emma Copley and Jenny Lancaster,
Emma Longfield and Beth Lane, Lewis Cox and Jonny Brittain.
Click on the following links to view the winners work:
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Emma and Beth |
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