Our curriculum builds on the connections students identify at the start of Year 7.  Whether these are local or more global in nature, we want students to recognise their place in the world and to develop an empathy for others.  

Skills taught in Year 7 are revisited in Year 8 in different contexts, allowing students to study a range of contrasting places.  Appreciating that change happens both over space and time is something that we explore throughout, as well as understanding the big ideas of causality and interdependence.  There are many opportunities to research and practice information gathering and mapping skills to ensure students are well prepared for future studies.  For example, students complete fieldwork enquiries in Totnes and along the local coastline.

Year 7 

• Making Connections: from local to global. What is Geography? 

• Map & GIS Skills - Galmpton fieldwork/local area study 

• Changing Places with a focus on local settlements.

• Weird weather & challenging climates  

• Totnes fieldwork & sustainability 

• Climate Change

Year 8 

• Coasts including local fieldwork - a comparative study of Elberry Cove and Churston Cove.   

• Incredible India  

• Migration - On the Move 

• Too many too few - water  

• Into Africa