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The aims of the department are to help the girls:
- Have an interest in a diverse and complex world.
- Develop an understanding of the processes affecting the
development and distribution of different physical and human
environments.
- Develop an understanding of interactions between people
and their environment.
- Develop a sense of place and an understanding of location.
- Understand different cultures and communities by studying
societies near and far and appreciating the constraints and
opportunities that face those societies today.
- Develop a range of skills through fieldwork.
- Appreciate the natural environment and how it may be sustained.
- Appreciate the significance of attitudes in decision-making.
- Use a range of geographical skills, including map reading.
Brief Summary of the Topics in the Senior School:
Form I
Introduction: What is Geography?
Map skills based on local OS Maps.
Local Area: Fareham and Hampshire
Settlement - Sites, pattern, urban areas and land use.
Transport - Networks, transport development, urban problems and
solutions.
Rocks and the landscape, especially chalk. Field trip to Harting
Down and South Harting.
Form II
Weathering and Erosion.
Rivers – Field trip to the River Wallington. River processes,
landforms and pollution.
Primary economic activities: quarrying and farming. A brief introduction
to secondary activities.
Weather and Climate of Britain. Depressions and anticyclones
Population - Natural increase and migration, with reference to
Mexico and the USA.
Development issues based on Kenya.
Environmental Problems - Conservation, wildlife protection, Antarctica.
Form III
Hazards - Volcanoes, earthquakes and soil erosion. Enquiry on
earthquakes.
Thematic study of Japan.
Natural environments - equatorial, desert.
Shopping enquiry.
Thematic study of an EU country: Italy.
Development
Tourism, linking with a field trip the New Forest or Hurst Spit
(including beach measurements).
Form IV and Form V GCSE Course
The topics covered include Rivers, Coasts,
Tectonic Activity and Rocks for the physical aspect of the subject.
The human geography topics comprise Settlement, Agriculture and
Managing Resources. In addition, map work and fieldwork are undertaken
and an individual local geographical enquiry is carried out for
coursework, which accounts for 25% of the GCSE mark. Girls are
encouraged to attend a 3 day residential field trip to South Dorset
during the course.
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