Welcome to the Geography Department

The Geography department is made up of a team of experienced Geography specialists. Our specialisms lie equally in both physical and human Geography. Our fundamental aim is to create young people with a strong sense of responsibility and stewardship of God’s earth. We want to inspire and teach our students about the beauty of the world and to have the desire to explore, travel and visit the world beyond St Monica’s.

Curriculum Intent

Geography is the study of places and the relationship between people and their environments. Our Geography curriculum at St. Monica’s aims to inspire pupils’ curiosity and fascination with the world and its people, which will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Pupils will develop a sound knowledge of diverse people, places, resources, and human and physical environments. We endeavour to encourage our students to become global citizens and contribute to their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. We ensure progression by introducing interactions between physical and human Geography. Engaging, relevant and manageable fieldwork allows our pupils to examine our fascinating world first-hand.

Curriculum Overview

Our curriculum map below outlines the programme of study in Geography for all pupils from Year 7 to Year 11. We build on knowledge from Key Stage 2 and prepare our students for life beyond St Monica’s.

Click here to view our Geography curriculum overview.

Learning journeys

Our learning journeys outline, in a visual format, the key knowledge that is shared with pupils in each year group. They provide a reference point for teaching and sharing knowledge in lessons.

Click here to view our learning journeys.

Knowledge Organisers

We use Knowledge Organiser widely across the department in our lessons to teach key knowledge and vocabulary.

Click here to view our year 7 knowledge organisers.

Click here to view our year 8 knowledge organisers.

Click here to view our year 9 knowledge organisers.

Geography Staff

Head of Geography: E Cordwell                  ecordwell@stmonicas.stoccat.org.uk

Teacher of Geography: G Benie Bi                 gbeniebi@stmonicas.stoccat.org.uk

Teacher of Geography: R Gregory                  rgregory@stmonicas.stoccat.org.uk

How Geography links to our PSHE programme

The Geography curriculum teaches our pupils the importance of stewardship; that, as young Catholics, we have the responsibility of caring for the people and places on God’s planet. We encourage our pupils to understand that there is an inequity of wealth across the world and that we are fortunate to be able to help and shape the lives who have less than we do.

Key Stage 4 Outline and Rationale

We follow the Edexcel Geography Specification in Year 10 and Year 11 and have experience of delivering this specification for a number of years.

Useful websites

Geography B (9–1) from 2016 | Pearson qualifications

To find out more about the Geography curriculum, please email ecordwell@stmonicas.stoccat.org.uk