Geography
Welcome to the Geography Department
Subject Leader
Curriculum Intent
The word ‘Geography’ comes from the Greek for ‘writing about the world’. As we endeavour to give our students the skills to participate in this ancient tradition, the geography curriculum at The Warriner School is designed to deepen and enrich students’ knowledge of the world in which they live.
We believe that access to knowledge is an entitlement that all our students, regardless of anything, have.
Our curriculum will give students knowledge that will let them become ‘part of the conversation’ whether that conversation is now or in years to come and whether it is in academia, a business meeting, or a social conversation, accessing rich knowledge in Geography opens these doors for our students and thus our future adults.
Our students will leave us with an awareness of their place in the world the role that humans can play in the planet’s continued success or demise, giving students the opportunity to consider sustainability and what that really means is at the heart of what we do.
We intend that our students will build on the skills that they are learning elsewhere in the school’s curriculum.
We will develop their vocabulary through the subject specialism and through the vehicle of language, we will teach vocabulary that is pertinent to the content being covered in an explicit way, students will build an awareness of etymology that will help them decipher and decode future texts and in so doing we will play a key role in the development of their literacy.
Furthermore, we will build on the skills that our colleagues in maths are developing in our students and we will give them the tools to use their quantitative skills to deepen their understanding of Geography and in so doing we will also deepen their numeracy skills. By doing all the above, we intend to give students the necessary knowledge and skills to become critical thinkers, so that they will always be able assess a range of evidence and its source so that they can come to their own conclusions and not be left to rely on the interpretations that are increasingly available through the rise of the digital age.
Key Stage 3
Year 7:
What is Geography? - Amazing Places Map Skills - My Place in the World - Extreme Weather and Flooding - Is the Warriner a Good Place to Learn?
Year 8 :
Global Connections - Climate Change and the Impacts - Population - Extreme Weather - Fantastic Physical Places (Biomes)
Year 9: Crime: a local area investigation - The Global Shift - Global Challenges - Risky World (Tectonics)
Key Stage 4
At GCSE we follow the Edexcel A specification which is divided into a Physical Geography exam, a Human Geography exam and an investigations paper linked to fieldwork and challenges in the UK. This is examined through end of year 11 exams only.
The physical topics are: Coasts; Rivers; Weather and Climate; and Biodiversity.
The human topics are: changing cities; global development; and resource management linked to either energy or water.
We conduct 2 local area investigations. A rivers study that takes place in a channel near to school and an urban investigation conducted in Birmingham. Both take place in early Year 11.
Examination Information
GCSE
EdExcel A
A Level
EdExcel
Other Information
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In Year 9 pupils use an Enrichment Day to investigate the impact of tourism on Stratford-upon-Avon. In Year 10 pupils investigate redevelop on a day trip to Brindley Place in Birmingham. In Year 12 students go on a 3-day residential field trip to the Peak District and Sheffield to investigate rebranding and managing the risk of flooding.