The geography curriculum enables all students to develop an understanding of where they live and how this fits into the global picture: starting from an understanding of our home, our school, Blackpool, the British Isles, Europe and the Wider world. We include practical field work activities through our Forest school lessons in the school grounds which include creating and using maps and reading an ordnance survey map. In class we use a range of atlases, globes and digital mapping apps to investigate the human and physical makeup of the areas studied in each year group. In KS2 children take part in discussing environmental issues through their ‘Earth matters’ topics which include litter picking, debates about climate change, creating models to identify changes, hosting fair trade events and using technology to identify ways to lessen their carbon footprint.
To build on the knowledge learnt lower down in the school, KS3 studies focus on polar regions, Thailand, India, physical features of the UK and more to help build a foundation of knowledge for students to progress. Throughout KS3 we look at the themes of; opportunities and challenges, social, economic and environmental as well as locational knowledge of the world. Students who choose to do so will be able to study GCSE Geography that will delve even further into human, physical and environmental geography for destinations across the globe.
Students will have the opportunity to complete a multitude of field trips to really experience first hand both human and physical geography, as well as virtually in the classroom to build upon their fieldwork skills. By taking students to places such as Liverpool, Poulton and Cleveleys students are shown how geography influences them outside of the classroom.
Exam information
| Geography | AQA | 8035 |
Paper 1 - Living with the physical environment Paper 2 - Challenges in the human environment Paper 3 - Geographical applications |
Geography N - 11 2024 - 2025