Wilson's School

Geography

The Geography curriculum at Wilson’s provides its students with a framework for understanding the changing world they live in. Our curriculum develops students’ knowledge and understanding of the world through the geographical concepts of place, scale, physical and human processes and sustainability.

The aims of the Wilson’s Geography Curriculum are to:

  1. Provide opportunities for students to apply the breadth and depth of their knowledge to current geographical issues.
  2. Develop students’ geographical thinking through the lenses of time, scale, cost and knock-on effects.
  3. Demonstrate a range of geographical skills: cartographical, mathematical, oracy, writing and fieldwork.

Head of Department

Miss R Denison 

Staff

Mr B Cady
Miss M Fairbrother
Ms J Norris
Mr A Sturt

Key Stage 3 (Years 7-8)

Core Concepts

Core Concept 1 - Place and Scale: develop an understanding of place identity at a variety of scales.

Core Concept 2 - Earth Processes: develop an understanding of the processes that shape the natural environment.

Core Concept 3 - Human Processes: develop an understanding of how humans can shape the areas that they live in both socially and economically.

Core Concept 4 - Sustainability: develop an understanding of the relationship between humans and the physical landscape currently and in the future.

Outline Programme of Study

Year 7:

  • The UK
  • Population and Settlement
  • Tectonics
  • Coasts and Rivers
  • Ecosystems
  • Fieldwork

Year 8:

  • Weather
  • Development
  • Globalisation and Trade
  • Glaciation
  • Resource Management
  • Climate Change

Key Stage 4 (Years 9-11)

Examination Board: AQA

Outline Programme of Study

Year 9:

  • The Challenges of Natural Hazards
  • Living World
  • The Challenge of Resource Management

Year 10:

  • Changing Economic World
  • Physical Landscapes in the UK-Coasts
  • Physical Fieldwork-Eastbourne

Year 11:

  • Urban Issues and Challenges
  • Human Fieldwork-London Bridge
  • Physical Landscapes in the UK-Rivers
  • Issues Evaluation-Paper 3

Key Stage 5 (Years 12-13)

Examination Board: Edexcel

Outline Programme of Study

Year 12

  • Autumn:
    • Coastal Landscapes and Change
    • Regenerating Places
    • Human and Physical Fieldwork
  • Spring:
    • Tectonic Processes and Hazards
    • Globalisation

Year 13

  • Autumn:
    • The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity
    • Superpowers
    • NEA
  • Spring:
    • The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security
    • Health, Human Rights and Intervention
    • Paper 3- Issues Evaluation
    • NEA

Departmental and Co-Curricular, Trips and Enrichment Opportunities  

Year 7 Trip in the Summer Term to Kew Gardens

Year 10 Fieldwork to Eastbourne

Year 11 Fieldwork to London Bridge

Year 12 Residential Fieldwork to the Jurassic Coastline

Geography Department Drop In is on Wednesday in Room 24 from 1:15pm.

Geography Club is on Wednesday in Room 23 from 1:15pm

Wider Reading: We have a small Geography library which can be used by students in Room 24.  

Geograohy