In Year 7 pupils are taught the essential geography skills they need to be successful in the subject. They then cover topics such as settlement, the UK , rivers, coasts and map skills with regular assessment.

In Year 8 they begin the year studying their first country case study of Brazil and then onto weather and climate. The weather and climate topic gives pupils the opportunity to apply skills learnt to outside of the classroom. Pupils then move onto to learn about the environment, including the case studies of oil and its effects and finally complete the year with rivers and flooding.

In Year 9 pupils start the year by learning about plate tectonics, volcanoes and earthquakes. We then move onto a case study about Italy , focusing on the area itself and surrounding members of the E.U. Pupils then learn about the tourism, fair trade particularly focusing on the trade of coffee around the world.

GCSE Geography

We offer GCSE geography to pupils in years 10 and 11 which follows the AQA specification A. This exam course covers three physical topics that are coasts, rivers and glaciation. There are also three human topics that are Settlement, Managing Resources and Industry. The exam papers make up 75% of the course and consist of two different papers. The remainder of the course is made up by coursework that focuses on crime in Manchester .