Geography
Geography


Head of Geography:


Enquiries:


The Shells at Radley:
Geography

The Removes &

Fifths at Radley:
Geography

The Sixth Form at Radley:
Geography

Geography Department Website:
Home Page
MetLink weather project
Geography Websites
Natural History Society Archive

Useful Links:
BBC News Online
Dundee Satellite Images
Earthweek
FAST Multimedia Search
GeoNet
Google Maps
Met Office
Multimap
NASA
NOAA
Planet Diary
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Meteorological Society
TED lectures
US Geological Survey
Virtual Earth
The Shells at Radley
Geography is a compulsory subject for all Shells.

Content

The course builds on the foundations of Common Entrance and covers aspects of both the physical and human world. The physical course includes major Earth Science themes — rocks, weathering, erosion, folding, faulting, vulcanicity and earthquakes. This is designed to cover the Science National Curriculum — Earth Science component. It also reflects the content requirements of the Geography National Curriculum. The human course covers population and resources and investigates the relationship between man and his environment.

The topics are taught in a practical way with an emphasis on personal research using the geography department intranet and website to investigate current geographical issues, news and events.

Fieldwork and Skills

Field trips are organised to demonstrate both physical and human geography in the local region and further afield. Pupils develop the skills of field observation, sketching, recording and analysis.

Computer skills are applied, where appropriate; e.g. word-processed projects and field trip accounts, graphics, data analysis, CD-ROM and web research, simulations and other applications.

The future

By the end of the Shell year pupils should have gained a confident understanding of physical and human geography as a sound basis for the IGCSE course in the Remove and Fifth Year.