Lower School

The aims of the curriculum are:

  • to stimulate students' interest in their surroundings and in the variety of human and physical conditions on the earth's surface;
  • to foster students' sense of wonder at the beauty of the world around them;
  • to help students to develop an informed concern about the quality of the environment and the future of the human habitat and thereby enhance students' sense of responsibility for the care of the earth and its people.

Scheme of Work

 

Term

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9
Christmas Term Introduction to Geography Rivers Globalisation
  Map Skills Population Climate Change
    China
Easter Term Settlement Population China
  Coasts Ecosystems Tourism
Summer Term Fieldwork - microclimagte study India Field work - Alice Holt
  Revision

Geography in the News 

 Fieldwork write up

Year 9 Field Trip to Alice Holt

 

Where Why What When
Alice Holt
 To investigate the impact of humans on a forest ecosystem Orienteering
Footpath transects		 Summer Term