GEOGRAPHY Mr G Carter, Head of Geography
Why Choose Geography?
Future Directions
Geography is a highly relevant subject that requires students to explore the big questions about our world today. It is wide-ranging, exciting, and thought-provoking. This newly updated course studies Geography in a balanced framework of physical and human themes, whilst investigating the links between them and conducting investigations at differing scales.
The Geography department team (Mr Carter, Miss Smith, Mrs Finn, Mrs Sharp, Mrs Herridge, Mr De Costa, and Mr Bond) look forward to you joining us next year. Geography is a growth subject at Roedean, seeing our GCSE cohort increase from thirty students five years ago to 85 students this year, and our A Level cohort grow from 4 to 14 students over the same period. Our results also continue to go from strength to strength, with over 70% of GCSE students gaining grades 7 to 9 in 2023.
Assessment Details Exam board: AQA 8030
Useful Attributes A good geographer is inquisitive, critical, analytical, logical, and resourceful. A good geographer can understand that there is rarely a single cause of an event but knows how to prioritise the factors which lead to it. 28
Details of compulsory trips and costs GCSE Geography has a compulsory fieldwork element which is then examined in Paper 3. To fulfil this requirement, we take our Year 11 cohort away for a two-night residential trip over a weekend in late September. This year we visited the Calshot Centre at the mouth of Southampton Water where students conducted their geographical file investigations combined with a range of exciting outdoor activities provided by the Calshot team. The weekend costs approximately £350.00.