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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 

KS3

Year Group

Areas of Study

7

Key Geography (Foundations and Connections)

Unit 1 – What is Geography & Key Skills (An introduction to the theory of Geography and the skills Geographers use and need)

Unit 2 – Weather and Climate (An examination of the pattern and influences on local and UK weather and climate)

Unit 3 – Urbanisation (An examination of the theory of urban areas, how they grow and some of the issues they face. A detailed look at the redevelopment of the Docklands areas of London)

Unit 4 – Ordnance Survey Map Skills (An examination of the map skills students need in Geography to be able to successfully use maps)

Unit 5 – River Flooding (Causes, Consequences and Management)

Unit 6 – Economic Activity (an examination of main Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary Industry theory)

8

Key Geography (Connections and Interactions)

Unit 1 – Weathering, Rivers, Coasts and Glaciation ( A look at the main physical processes that affect landform development)

Unit 2 – Population (Aan examination of how population changes over time)

Unit 3 – World Issues (A look at the main issues that affect the World today)

Unit 4 – Environmental Regions (An examination of the key ecosystem areas of the World - Tropical Rainforests, Deserts, Mediterranean Climates and Polar Regions : Climate Characteristics and Adaptions of nature)

Unit 5 – Plate Tectonics (An examination of the structure of Earth, the main plate margins and they types of hazards that are found as a result)

Unit 6 – Resources and the Environment (An examination of the earth’s main resources and how humans need to adapt to live more sustainably)

9

Unit 1 – Population and Migration (Issues associated with ageing Population and migration in the UK)

Unit 2 – Urban studies (Processes, theories, Problems and solutions to several issues like transport and housing in UK cities, including an examination of London as a World City)

Unit 3 – Rural studies (Issues like rural depopulation, their causes and impacts along with solutions in remote and near rural communities)

Unit 4 – World Cities (Theory and an examination of Mumbai as a World City)

GCSE

Board

Eduqas (Specification A)

Outline of the Course

  • Topic 1: Climate change – causes, consequences, impact
  • Topic 2: World climates: high and low pressure; Weather hazards: drought, wildfire, monsoons
  • Topic 3: Ecosystems – structure and function: tropical rain forests and coral
  • Topic 4: Water resource management, focus: Southern Africa
  • Topic 5: Weather and climate of UK
  • Topic 6: Development and Resource Issues (Inequality, TNC’s, Tourism and development, sustainable development goals, water
  • Topic 7: Environmental Impacts on a global scale - to include climate change, sea level rise, coral bleaching and management, plastic pollution, Ecological footprints, e-waste, food miles
  • Topic 8: Distinctive Landscapes of UK including Limestone
  • Topic 9: River Landscapes, Processes and Management of Flood risk 
  • Topic 10: Coastal Landscapes and Processes 
  • Topic 11: Sand dune ecosystems 
  • Topic 12: Coastal Management - Flooding and Erosion issues in vulnerable coastal areas (option chosen by school) 
  • Topic 13: Rural-urban links (rural and urban areas, issues and management MEDC & LEDC, Population growth and Migration) 
  • Topic 14: World cities; Focus Mumbai 

Assessment

 

Type of Assessment

Duration

Weighting

1

Component 1 – 3 structured data response and knowledge questions drawing on Topics 1-7

1 hour 30 minutes

35%

2

Component 2 – 3 structured data response and knowledge questions drawing on Topics 8-14

1 hour 30 minutes

35%

3

Applied fieldwork and General Geography structured questions

1 hour 30 minutes

30%

 

Students opting for Geography at GCSE are expected to participate on a 3 day residential course in Year 11 to cover the P3 Fieldwork Requirement. This visit will cost approximately £350.00 for travel and full board. Students will complete work on the Methodological Approach and Conceptual Frameworks set out by the Examination Board (Eduqas). We hope that as many students as possible will join us in this and we will provide alternative self supported fieldwork tasks (homework) for students not attending. This opportunity will provide students with the fieldwork they require (a compulsory element) for their Paper 3 examination.

A Level

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

 

Type of Assessment

Duration

Weighting

1

Physical Paper

Section A: Water and carbon cycles

Section B: Coastal systems and landscapes

Section C: Hazards

2 hours 30 minutes

40%

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%

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: covering 4 days must be completed and students may be offered (booking permissible) a residential fieldwork visit to Flatford Mill, Suffolk costing £600 approx.

3,000-4,000 words

20%
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