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Geography at King Charles I School:

Geography - studying the Earth’s surface features and related human activity – has a vital place in the 21st century curriculum. Geography helps us understand our own lives in a global world and face vital issues like climate change, the ‘war on terror’, water, energy and food security and poverty eradication.

Geography offers fascinating insights into the way human and physical processes interact. We hear every day that the world is short of space, that human beings are placing greater and greater demands on the Earth and its systems. But is ‘drought’ a human or physical phenomenon? What about hurricanes? Or flooding? Geography gives us the language and techniques to approach these questions with confidence.

Our Trip to Iceland

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Over the Easter weekend, Miss Finley, Mr Pearson & Mrs Bartlett took 24 Year 10 to Year 13 Geography pupils to Iceland. We visited Gullfoss falls, The Blue Lagoon, we saw the Northern Lights, melting glaciers, geysers and an erupting volcano.

Geography links well with other subjects at GCSE!!!

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Art/Design Technology - Advertising, Architecture, Cartography, Landscape Architecture
Science - Agriculture, Environmental Health, Estate Management, Nature Conservation
Maths - Banks, Building, Societies, Business, Civil Service
English - Law, Publishing

History - Libraries, Museums
Modern Languages - Business, Blingual Secretary, Overseas Marketing, Leisure and Tourism
Various Subjects - Leisure Services, Sports and Recreation Management, Social and Youth Work, Surveying, Transport Services, Local Authority Administration, Teaching

Geography is for students who:

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Have an opinion!

Care about issues affecting people and the environment

Want to study a subject that is relevant to their own life and experiences

Want to do practical as well as class based work and fieldwork

Enjoy finding out about other cultures places landscapes and events

Are fascinated by people and their actions

Want to change the world for the better!

This is what current pupils are saying about Geography at KCI:

"It is an active lesson, you can do things in groups and it's hands on work. Lots of games!"

"It is a useful subject. It's a GCSE I can be proud of and go far with. I want to be a journalist."

"Geography is the best subject there is. The teaching is brilliant and the teacher is a good laugh!"

"Pupils are involved a lot; lots of group work; teacher gives clear instructions; very well planned lessons; good use of ICT."

Your Geography Teachers at GCSE will be:

Mr Pearson and Miss Finley

The Inspiration

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Geography gives us a unique understanding of people and places. All human societies have to arrange living space, economic production, distribution and consumption.

People have many common concerns and longings. Yet no two places are alike. We can all see the differences and wonder about reasons.