Curriculum – Geography

Vision

At the Radclyffe High School, we are always striving for excellence. We aspire to make our education lively and memorable. We welcome and nurture students from diverse backgrounds and develop our students’ sense of pride by increasing their own styles of resilience and optimism, to ensure that they can tackle anything. The purpose of education at The Radclyffe is to ensure that all students have access to ‘powerful knowledge’ no matter what their background. Education underpins student development and prepares them to face everyday challenges, starting from year 7 and continuing through to year 11 and hopefully, into their future lives.

The subject of Geography has the power to do this in three clear ways:

1. We give all of our pupils’ access to our vast wealth of knowledge through well-prepared lessons and a systematic style of learning, in order to help students, link their own lives to that of the world around them.
2. We ensure that all pupils, no matter their background, can access our lessons through excellent teaching methods, differentiation and regular support in the classroom.
3. We prioritise the teaching of other cultures, countries and how people interact with the physical environment to further cement students’ understanding of their place on Earth and the relevance of geography to them.

“Cherish the natural world because you’re a part of it, and you depend on it.” – David Attenborough.

Every single person acts as a caretaker for our planet; therefore, as teachers, we should instill a sense of responsibility and duty within our students to care for it. As geography teachers, we do this by ensuring each student at The Radclyffe studies a variety of places and environments and then we discuss how physical and human processes can affect these. We teach our students to develop a variety of skills in order to problem-solve, manage and apply data effectively, distinguish the interdependence of the human and physical environment and to understand where they themselves fit into this complicated yet exciting world.

Curriculum

Updated: July 2025

The curriculum is available to view online or download below:

Click here to view the GCSE and Equivalent Qualifications Specifications