Geography
Our curriculum is designed to develop our students to ensure that they are:
- Ambitious in their dreams and thinking
- Confident in themselves and their abilities
- Independent in their mind and actions
- Creative in their problem-solving and imagination
Through their seven year Langton journey students follow:
- Broad, balanced and coherent curriculum
- Academically ambitious
- Providing essential knowledge and skills for lifelong learning, cultural understanding and personal development
- Supporting wellbeing, with community at its heart
- Extended curriculum that takes learning beyond the confines of the NC and exam specifications
- Develop transferable traits to prepare for next steps of life and to allow them to contribute positively to society and live happy healthy and fulfilled lives
Minimum Entry Criteria
Desired: 7 in Geography or contact the school if you have not studied the subject at GCSE
Essential: 6 in Geography or contact the school if you have not studied the subject at GCSE
Board
AQA
Outline of the Course
Year 12:
- Coastal Landscapes (Section B – Physical Geography)
- Global Systems and Governance (Section A – Human Geography)
- Changing Places (Section B – Human Geography)
- Water and Carbon (Section A – Physical Geography
Holiday Work Year 12-13: Review of topics covered in Year 12 – Teams
Year 13:
- Hazards (Section C Physical Geography)
- Population and the Environment (Section C Human Geography)
- Geographical Fieldwork Investigation: 4,000 word Independent Report – Guided by teachers but student directed
Assessment
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Type of Assessment |
Duration |
Weighting |
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1 |
Physical Paper Section A: Water and carbon cycles Section B: Coastal systems and landscapes Section C: Hazards |
2 hours 30 minutes |
40% |
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2 |
Human Paper Section A: Global systems and global governance Section B: Changing places Section C: Population and the environment |
2 hours 30 minutes |
40% |
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3 |
Students complete an individual investigation which must include data collected in the field. The individual investigation must be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student relating to any part of the specification content. Fieldwork: Residential visit end of Year 12 to FSC Flatford Mill, Suffolk £550 approx. |
3,000-4,000 words |
20% |
Bridging Task - Geography Part OneBridging Task - Geography Part Two
Sixth Form Programme of Courses
