Head of Department: Mrs C Owen and Mrs K Robertson

Geography Curriculum Overview

Our vision:
The Geography department is a connected department which aims to inspire, engage and motivate students through connections:

· To success through high attainment and aspiration
· To contemporary issues shaping the world around us
· To our local community
· To the wider world
· Through technology
· Through partnerships and teacher development

Our aims:

KS3 - to provide students with a firm foundation of powerful geographical knowledge for their future lives through high quality geography teaching. We follow the United Learning Curriculum.
GCSE - to build upon the foundation of geographical knowledge developed through the KS3 curriculum to ensure success for all in the OCR Entry Level geography and/or AQA GCSE geography courses and their future lives. Our core textbook is ‘GCSE Geography for AQA’ by OUP.
A level geography - to build upon the foundation of geographical knowledge developed through the KS3 and GCSE curricula to ensure success for all in AQA A level geography and their future lives. We aim to make links between A level geography and the academic geography curriculum at Universities. Our core textbook is AQA A level Geography from Hodder Education.

Focus on Excellence:

The department is a Geographical Association Centre of Excellence. We have strong links with the local community, other geography departments across TPLT and Somerset and the Kasubi schools group in Uganda. Mrs Owen is a Chartered Geographer and the author of several geography books.

Follow the geography department on Twitter @TKASAGeog