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Geography
GCSE 1 - 9
Subject Leader: Miss C Cannon
Examination Board: OCR B ‘J383’ Geography for enquiring minds
Assessment Requirements
35% Unit 1 – Our natural world (01) 70 marks 1 hour 15
35% Unit 2 – People and society (02) 70 marks 1 hour 15
30% Unit 3 – Geographical exploration (03) 60 marks 1 hour 30
Course Outline
‘Geography for Enquiring Minds’ is a new GCSE for first examination in 2016. The course
aims to:
Develop students’ knowledge of places, locations and environments.
Develop and extend students’ competence in fieldwork.
Develop students’ understanding of interactions between people and the
environment.
Expectations
These topics will build on the student’s experiences in Key Stage 3 Geography lessons
and have also been selected to compliment other subjects. All topics will study the world
from a local to a global scale and will draw on modern issues that affect the students in
their daily lives.
Geography encourages skills including independent learning, collaborative learning,
literacy and numeracy. Students will need to demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills
within their exam answers.
There are two fieldtrips as part of this course; one to a human location and one to a
Physical location. The 2016/2017 cohort went to Hengistbury Head and Portsmouth but
these are subject to change.
Career Opportunities
Geography is seen as a facilitating subject and many universities include the Russell
group encourage students to have geography on their CVs. In 2016 geography graduates
had one of the highest rates of employment after leaving university.
There are many career options you can do with geography, not just teaching. There are
jobs in conservation, environment, ICT, computer science, government, United Nations,
marketing, town planning, OS (maps and cartography), army, RAF, police, logistics,
distribution, architect, development, transport planner, leisure and tourism and much,
much more.