The document outlines the GCSE Geography course at St Ivo School, emphasizing its relevance to future societal changes and environmental challenges. It includes details about the course structure, assessment types, and topics covered, alongside the successful history of student performance and fieldwork opportunities. The document also highlights the skills developed through geography, which enhance employability and prepare students for various career paths.

1. The world in which we live is likely to change more in the next 50 years than it has ever
done before. Geography explains why, and helps to prepare you for those changes...
St Ivo School Geography Department
WELCOME TO GCSE GEOGRAPHY
St Ivo School Geography Department
“Geography its the subject that holds the key to our future”
Michael Palin

3. Course Structure:
Unit 1 – Living with the Physical
Environment
Unit 2 – Challenges in the Human
Environment
Unit 3 – Geographical Applications
EXAM – 35%
EXAM – 35%
EXAM – 30%
Unit Title Assessment Type
GCSE Geography 2016 - 2018 – AQA
The course is made up of three units covered throughout the two years. It is a LINEAR
course, so all exams are at the end of Year 11. There is NO tiered entry and No controlled
assessment.
SO WHAT DOES THE COURSE CONSIST OF?
Geography is a very popular option (we have 172 students in Year 10!) Last year
91.5% of our students achieved A*-C Grades and 50.4% were A/A*!

4. Unit 1 – Living with the Physical World
• Tectonic Hazards
• Weather Hazards
• Climate Change
• Ecosystems
• Tropical Rainforests
• Hot Deserts
• UK Physical Landscapes
• Coastal Landscapes
• River Landscapes
EXAM – 35%

5. Unit 2 – Challenges in the Human Environment
• Urban Issues and
Challenges
• Rapid growth of LICs
• Variations in global
development
• Economic Growth in
LICs
• The UKs changing
economy
• Resource Management
EXAM – 35%

6. Unit 3 – Geographical Applications
• Physical Geography
Enquiry /Fieldwork
• Human Geography
Enquiry / Fieldwork
• Geographical Skills
• Decision Making
Exercise
EXAM – 25%

7. St Ivo School Geography Department
FIELDWORK OPPORTUNITIES
The Geography Department have
been running a successful residential
trip to Iceland students since 2007 –
the trip is optional for those studying
GCSE Geography and supports the
Tectonics section of Unit 2.
All students will undertake fieldwork for their
Unit 3 geographical investigations unit, which will
include a local based urban study, such as St Ives
or Cambridge and a physical based study such as
(context to be confirmed).

8. St Ivo School Geography Department
Geography tackles the big issues:
• environmental responsibility
•Our global interdependence
•Cultural understanding and tolerance
•Commerce, trade and industry
Geography will help you to develop
transferable skills, which are highly sought
after by employers...
WHY GEOGRAPHY?

9. Compared to other subjects, geography graduates are among the most
employable. They possess the skills that employers look for. In part this is because
Geography combines a knowledge of science and an understanding of the arts.
Geographers learn how to:
• write concise reports
• handle data
• ask questions and find answers
• make decisions about issues
• analyse material
• organise themselves
• think creatively & independently
Geographers are:
• Good communicators
• Spatially area
• Socially, economically and environmentally aware
• problem solvers
• good team players
• computer literate
• well rounded, flexible thinkers
GEOGRAPHY AT WORK

10. Interested in world events?
Aid Worker
Diplomat
Refugee Advisor
Charity Coordinator
With the transferrable skills Geography develops, the list is endless, but here are
just a FEW ideas of geography related careers...

11. Our 2015 GCSE Results were 91.5% A* - C
We have also been given 2 awards this year
recognising outstanding teaching and learning.
As well as being awarded the Secondary Geography
Quality mark from the Geographical Association we
have been deemed to be a Centre of Excellence which
recognises the department's contribution to quality
geography beyond the school and into the local or
regional education community
We have also been awarded the
Princes Teaching Institute Geography
mark recognising our commitment to
constantly seeking to enhancing
teaching and learning of Geography
ST IVO SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT SUCCESSES

12. "Geography is the subject which holds the key to our future" -
Michael Palin

13. Photo Credits:
The following photographs have been used within the slide show:
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