GEOGRAPHY

Geography is one of the most interesting and relevant courses you can study. Issues such as climate change, migration, the environment and social cohesion are at the forefront of the political agenda. Student Geographers develop a wide range of skills including data handling, problem solving, critical evaluation and field work skills.

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The geography curriculum at Leigh Academy Tonbridge holds the belief that there are few things more fundamental than learning about “the earth as our home.” For that reason our curriculum could be summarized as: “Geography is the study of the earth as a home to humankind” (Johnson, 1985). Our curriculum allows pupils to analyse our environment and human activity on earth, in order to draw their own conclusions about the state of the planet and its future.

Module 1:UK and Local Geography
Module 2: Global Issues
Module 3: Weather and Climate
Module 4: Population and Migration
Module 5: What is the economy?
Module 6: Rivers

Module 1: Tectonics
Module 2: Earth as a natural resource
Module 3: Extremely cold environments – Polar and Taiga
Module 4: Urbanisation
Module 5: Biomes and Rainforests
Module 6: Deserts and Droughts

Module 1: Atmospheric Hazards
Module 2: Climate Change
Module 3: Tectonics
Module 4: Urbanisation
Module 5: India Case Study
Module 6: Global and UK Tourism

Module 1: Development unit 2
Module 2: UK physical landscape – coasts and rivers Unit 4
Module 3: Urbanising world Unit 3
Module 4: Hazardous Earth Unit 1
Module 5: Hazardous Earth
Module 6: People and the biosphere unit 7

Module 1: Consuming Energy Resources unit 9 (2023/24 UK evolving human landscape Unit 5)
Module 2: Fieldwork (Residential Fieldtrip to Norfolk) Unit 6 (2023/24 Fieldwork Unit 6)
Module 3: UK Evolving Human Landscape Unit 5 (2023/24 Consuming energy resources Unit 9)
Module 4: UK Evolving Human Landscape Unit 5 (2023/24 Forests under threat unit 8)
Module 5: Revision
Module 6: Exams

Module 1: Tectonics and Globalisation
Module 2: Tectonics and Globalisation
Module 3: Diverse Places and Coasts
Module 4: Diverse Places and Coasts
Module 5: Diverse places and Water
Module 6: Carbon and Water

Module 1: Carbon and NEA
Module 2: Super powers and NEA
Module 3: Superpowers and Migration, identity and sovereignty
Module 4: Paper 3 and Migration, identity and sovereignty
Modules 5 & 6: Revision

Geography is a subject which holds the key to our future.
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