Geography

“Geography is the subject that holds the key to our future.”

Michael Palin (An English actor, writer and television presenter)

Assessment

While the world changes so quickly, we focus on developing student skills that remain a constant to enable students to face any situation or task with these skills. As students move through Year 7 to 9, our expectation is that they develop these skills and apply them to a range of topics with increasing accuracy and detail.

The skills of drawing, mapping and describing are accessible to all, regardless of age, and therefore this skill does not change, however we apply them to differing contexts throughout the 3 years. The high order skills of explaining and evaluating tend to be more difficult and certain aspects of these skills require further understanding to allow students to master. As a result our expectations of these skills especially increases as the students move up to Year 9. This in turn prepares them well for answering the harder IGCSE questions.

Below are two grade descriptors to give an overview of what a grade 9 and 6 geographer looks like: