Senior Department | Geography
The Aim of Geography is to help pupils to understand both the natural environment and that created by human beings, and the relationship between the two.
The department is well resourced and has an interactive whiteboard in the main teaching room.
The syllabus in the senior school is varied in each year and pupils are examined on the work covered. A section on map work and global location will be found in every examination.
A brief summary of topics studied is as follows:
Year 4 (Transition 2)
- What is Geography?
- Map work
- British & European Location
- Continents & Oceans
- Inside the Earth
- St Lucia
- Fieldwork in the school grounds
Year 5 (form 3)
- Map work
- Natural environments
- Global location
- The EU and Italy
Year 6 (form 4)
- Primary activities
- Secondary activities
- The Environment
- World development
- Kenya
- Global location
Year 7 (form 5)
- Weather and climate
- River basins
- Settlements
- The home region
- Global location
Year 8 (form 6)
- Hazards
- Fluvial erosion
- Revision
Geography attempts to instil in pupils the philosophy that we as individuals are responsible for the well-being of the earth and all that inhabit it.
