Subject Information - Geography

---

Geography at Padgate academy seeks to broaden students’ knowledge of their local area and the wider world. Teaching will equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.  

Students will use a range of enquiry techniques and data processing to investigate key issues on a range of scales from local, national to international. Applying their problem solving skills to address the main issues facing our world, whist understanding Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time. 

Geography will enable students to better understand their place in the world as global citizens and will apply this responsibility to create a sustainable future for generations to come. 

The Geography curriculum is based upon 5 key questions;

• How do physical processes shape the landscape?
• Why are population and migration patterns changing?
• How are humans developing the World?
• Why do natural hazards pose a risk to humans?
• Where do I fit into the World?

These questions are regularly reviewed throughout Key Stage Three.