The geography curriculum at King's Leadership Academy Wavertree provides all students with the knowledge they need to understand physical processes that shape the world and human interaction. By studying geography, we aim to inspire students to be curious and fascinated about the world they live in and its people and environments. Our curriculum is centred around the exploration of 5 key geographical concepts:
Sustainability
Interdependence
Awareness and Diversity
Landscapes and Processes
Place, Space and Scale
By studying geography, students are allowed to develop their knowledge of real-life situations by exploring detailed case studies. Students are also allowed to investigate the world around them with practical investigations, enrichment opportunities and field trips to geographical locations, improving their cultural capital, and self-confidence and underpinning future learning.
We want students to love geography and be confident that they will experience stimulating lessons with the support and care of dedicated departmental staff who champion every young person.
Geography is all around us and as such is an ideal subject to prepare students for future challenges, be it further study or entrance to the world of work. We endeavour to foster a lifelong love of geography through varied activities both inside and outside the classroom and prepare well-rounded students for the world after 16, both as members of society and in whatever career path they choose to follow.
The King’s Leadership Academy Wavertree's geography curriculum has been developed to ensure that all students:
develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time
are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length