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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.

The Inspiration

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.

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Geography is for students who:

  • 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!
 

Geography links well with other subjects at GCSE!

  • 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
 

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