An overview of the topics / skills taught
Subject: Geography
Year: Upper Remove
Spring Term
Autumn Term
Tectonic Processes (to complete)
 Tohoku earthquake
 Volcanoes: location, causes, effects, benefits &
responses
Rivers
 Hydrological cycle
 Drainage basins
 River processes (erosion, transportation &
deposition)
 River Landforms in the Upper Course
(waterfalls & gorges)
 River Landforms in the Middle Course
(meanders)
 River Landforms in the Lower Course
(floodplains, oxbow lakes)
 Reasons why rivers flood
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River flood case study: UK floods of 2014
January Exam
Settlements
 Settlement site, situation, pattern & function
 Settlement hierarchy
 Land use in MEDC cities
Summer Term
Revision & Exam
Bizworld
Cross-curricular – Syrian Conflict
Economic Activities
 Primary, secondary, tertiary & quaternary
sectors
 Recognising economic activities on OS maps
 Employment structures in MEDCs & LEDCs
Fieldwork
Pupils are introduced to the fieldwork & are offered
advice on possible topics during the week before halfterm. This will allow boys to collect data over the
half-term if they wish. The write-up is worth 20% of
the final Transfer Exam score, and the boys will spend
each lesson after half-term writing up their results to
their investigation.
Boys sitting the scholarship are not required to
produce a write-up but are encouraged to research a
topic and understand how the data could be collected
and presented.
This scheme of work may change during the course of the year in response to the boys’ learning needs.
An overview of the topics / skills taught
Subject: Geography
Year: Lower Remove
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
Tectonic Processes (cont’d)
Ordnance Survey Mapwork Skills (cont’d)
Coasts
Introduction to coasts: wave energy, destructive &
constructive waves
Why is the coast always changing?
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Weathering
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Erosion
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Transportation
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Deposition
Coastal landforms produced by erosion: wave cut notch,
wave cut platform, cliffs, and the features found at a headland
(cave, arch, stack & stump)
Coastal landforms produced by transportation (longshore
drift) and deposition (spit, tombolo & bar)
Coastal flooding & coastal management (case study;
Ovingdean beach, Brighton). Hard engineering, soft
engineering and managed retreat (Medmerry Sea Defences).
Ordnance Survey Mapwork Skills
All the following skills will be applied to both 1:50,000 and
1:25,000 OS maps.
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Four & six figure references
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Use of symbols & abbreviations on maps
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Contour lines, spot heights & recognising landscape
features
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Direction (cardinals & half cardinals)
Orientation (incl. following routes)
Identifying spot heights and contour lines
Calculating distance & area
Mid – Year Exam
Ordnance Survey Mapwork Skills (cont’d)
Tourism on OS maps
Land use (incl. decision making exercises)
Drawing a simple cross-section
Tectonic Processes
Structure of the earth
Constructive, destructive & conservative plate
boundaries
Location of volcanoes & earthquakes
Earthquakes:
 Location of recent earthquakes
 Focus & epicentre
 Measuring earthquakes (seismometer, Richter
scale)
 Possible effects of earthquakes
 Trying to predict earthquakes
 Case study; Tohoku (11 March, 2011)
End – of – Year Exam
Tectonic Processes (cont’d)
Volcanoes:
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Location of volcanoes
Active, dormant & extinct volcanoes
Structure of volcano
Damage caused by volcanic eruptions
Predicting future eruptions
Why live near volcanoes (benefits)
Managing the effects of volcanic eruptions
This scheme of work may change during the course of the year in response to the boys’ learning needs.
An overview of the topics / skills taught
Subject: Geography
Year: Third Form
Autumn Term
Resources & The Environment
Globalisation
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Spring Term
Introduction to Globalisation
TNCs & globalisation
Economic development and the Brandt line
The global fashion industry - sweatshops
Global sport: Barclays Premiership
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Business Location
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Factors affecting the location of a new
business. Case study: new Wembley Stadium
Stadia: good news or bad news?
Introduction to natural resources
Who cares for & protects the environment?
Protecting the environment and endangered
species
How does industry pollute the environment?
Research investigation into conflict with the
natural environment. Case study; Hope
quarry, Derbyshire.
Summer Term
Tourism cont’d
 The benefits tourism can bring.
 Problems caused by tourism and how conflict
can be managed.
 National Parks in the UK (make a poster using
a case study)
End – of – Year Exam
Economic Activities
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Employment structure; primary, secondary,
tertiary & quaternary sectors
Size of economic sectors in MEDCs and
LEDCs.
Tourism
 What is the tourist industry?
 Why has the tourist industry grown so rapidly
in recent years?
Please note that the Transfer Exam syllabus now starts in the spring term of the 3rd Form. In addition to the Lower & Upper Remove syllabus, the TE syllabus, therefore, includes
‘Resources & the Environment’, ‘Economic activities’ and ‘Tourism’.
This scheme of work may change during the course of the year in response to the boys’ learning needs.
An overview of the topics / skills taught
Subject: Geography
Year: Second Form
Autumn Term
Spring Term
What is Geography?
 The meaning of the word ‘geography’
 Introduction to human, physical & environmental
geography
 How to use an atlas
 Displaying data using pie graphs, bar charts,
scatter graphs etc.
 Using IT in Geography
 The use & value of geography
Geography and Sport
 How sport is affected by physical geography such
as weather, gradient etc.
 Football is big business: costs & revenue of a
typical football club
 Location of stadia in urban areas – brownfield &
greenfield development. Case study: Liverpool
FC).
 Impact of a football stadium on the local area
Weather & Climate
 How do we observe & record the weather?
 Microclimate – how do local features affect the
wind & temperature?
 Britain’s weather – rainfall & temperature
 Why does it rain?
 High and low pressure systems – predicting our
weather!
Summer Term
Map & Atlas Skills
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Maps & plans
Four & six figure references
Direction (cardinals & half cardinals)
Contour lines & spot heights
Recognising physical basic landscape features
Tourism on OS maps
Land use
End – of - Year – Exam
Exploring the British Isles
 Introduction to the British Isles & the UK
 UK physical features (upland areas, rivers, seas
etc.)
 The UK climate
 Human features (major urban areas &
motorways)
 UK economic regions & counties
 Migration & the UK
This scheme of work may change during the course of the year in response to the boys’ learning needs.