Key Stage 3 (Year 7 and 8)

Each topic at Key Stage 3 encourages students to consider and answer some of the biggest questions in our world today. Opportunities to develop fieldwork skills are also included. We hope that students will continue to study with us through GCSE and A-Level Geography, but if they choose not to study Geography further, we hope that they continue their exploration of the world in their future.

Year 7

• Topic 1 – African Adventure
• Topic 2 – Natural Hazards
• Topic 3 – Coasts and Oceans
• Topic 4 – The UK Uncovered
• Topic 5 – Weather and Climate
• Topic 6 – Ecosystems: travelling along the 120° line of latitude
• Fieldwork investigations – The plastic problem

Year 8

• Topic 1 – Climate Change: Is climate change our biggest challenge?
• Topic 2 –Who are the BRICS countries? (Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa).
• Topic 3 – Along the River Ganges
• Topic 4 – Conflict around the world
• Topic 5 – The Middle East
• Topic 6 – Resource management and sustainability
• Fieldwork investigations – sustainability

At GCSE, we follow the Edexcel Specification A and teach the following topics in Year 9 – 11.

Year 9 

• Ecosystems: tropical rainforests and deciduous woodlands
• Weather and Climate: weather hazards tropical storms and droughts
• Changing Cities: Sheffield as a case study of a major city in the UK and Mexico City as a major city in an emerging economy

Year 10

• Global development: Mexico as a case study of an emerging economy (changing to Pakistan for 2023 examinations)
• Resource Management: focusing on energy

• The Changing Landscape of the UK: coasts

• Physical fieldwork: a river landscape – Burbage Brook.

Year 11

• UK challenges
• Human fieldwork: an urban environment – Sheffield.
• Revision and exam preparation

At A-Level we follow the Edexcel specification and teach the following topics in Year 12 and 13

Year 12

Physical Geography Topics:

• Dynamic Landscape: Tectonic Processes and Hazards
• Landscape Systems, Processes and Change: Coastal Landscapes and Change

Human Geography Topics:

• Dynamic Place: Globalisation
• Shaping Places: Regenerating Places

Year 13

Physical Geography Topics:

• Physical Systems and Sustainability: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity
• The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security

Human Geography Topics:

• Human Systems and Geopolitics: Superpowers
• Global Development and Connections: Health, Human Rights and Intervention

In addition to work completed in school, students will be set a range of home learning tasks. These tasks include short recall activities via Show My Homework which use subject knowledge organisers to review content and additional tasks set by class teachers specific to their class. In addition, at KS4 and KS5, students are guided to complete written practice and wider research and preparation where relevant.