We want students to have extensive knowledge relating to a wide range of places, environments and features at a variety of scales, extending from local to global.
We want students to understand the physical and human conditions and processes which lead to the development of, and change in, a variety of geographical features, systems and places. We want them to be able to explain various ways in which places are linked and the impact such links have on people and environments. We want them to make connections between different geographical phenomena they have studied.
We want students to be able, with increasing independence, to choose and use a wide range of data to help investigate, interpret, make judgements and draw conclusions about geographical questions, issues and problems, and express and engage with different points of view about these.
We want students to understand the physical and human conditions and processes which lead to the development of, and change in, a variety of geographical features, systems and places. We want them to be able to explain various ways in which places are linked and the impact such links have on people and environments. We want them to make connections between different geographical phenomena they have studied.
We want students to be able, with increasing independence, to choose and use a wide range of data to help investigate, interpret, make judgements and draw conclusions about geographical questions, issues and problems, and express and engage with different points of view about these.
Geography at St. Mary's builds on the learning from primary school. To support this transition process we provide a booklet of resources which year 6 pupils can complete to build their skills or year 7 students can complete as a retrieval activity. This booklet can be found here.
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Within geography lessons at St. Mary's we focus on 5 key concepts that run through all of our topic areas.
Players concern issues of how people think about the world and how they communicate that thinking to others. How people experience the world, both directly and through the media, affects their actions within it, which affects the lives of others. Players considers the impacts on and by different groups of people within society.
Diversity relates to geographers’ focus on a complex and varied world: places and environments are diverse between and within themselves. Diversity in elements such as quality of life may lead to concerns about inequality, which may lead to conflict. Geographers consider how can these conflicts be negotiated and the impacts of them.
Change is crucial as a driver within physical geography (as seen in processes such as coastal erosion) and human geography (as seen in issues such as urban redevelopment or population growth). Managing change is a key aspect of geography – we learn from past changes and predict and manage future ones. Geographers look at the different timescales of change.
Sustainability is concerned with the future, uncertainty and risk we see around us. Geographers consider the impacts that society are having on the wider environment at a range of scales and how these impacts can and should be reduced.
Interdependence is closely linked to change. Again, in both physical and human aspects of the subject, geographers want to find out how things are linked together and how one aspect affects another. In human geography, it is not enough just to establish how and why people or countries are interlinked; we also want to know about the power relationships involved. Interdependence occurs both within and between physical and human aspects of the world.
Players concern issues of how people think about the world and how they communicate that thinking to others. How people experience the world, both directly and through the media, affects their actions within it, which affects the lives of others. Players considers the impacts on and by different groups of people within society.
Diversity relates to geographers’ focus on a complex and varied world: places and environments are diverse between and within themselves. Diversity in elements such as quality of life may lead to concerns about inequality, which may lead to conflict. Geographers consider how can these conflicts be negotiated and the impacts of them.
Change is crucial as a driver within physical geography (as seen in processes such as coastal erosion) and human geography (as seen in issues such as urban redevelopment or population growth). Managing change is a key aspect of geography – we learn from past changes and predict and manage future ones. Geographers look at the different timescales of change.
Sustainability is concerned with the future, uncertainty and risk we see around us. Geographers consider the impacts that society are having on the wider environment at a range of scales and how these impacts can and should be reduced.
Interdependence is closely linked to change. Again, in both physical and human aspects of the subject, geographers want to find out how things are linked together and how one aspect affects another. In human geography, it is not enough just to establish how and why people or countries are interlinked; we also want to know about the power relationships involved. Interdependence occurs both within and between physical and human aspects of the world.
We believe that geography is an amazing subject that everyone should study. Have a look at the clips below to see two of the many reasons why!
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