Geography Department News (January 2024)

Hi everyone,

It’s a new year and a new term in the Geography Department with all lower school years moving onto new areas of study.

Year 7 are exploring world population, which now stands at over 8 billion and is still rising. They will explore the challenges this poses and even at 8 million, why some places remain virtually empty of people. There will also be a look at the hot topic of migration.

Year 8 are shortly moving onto a unit on mountain landscapes – where they are, how mountains form and the physical processes that change them. We will finish by looking at how people tackle climbing the tallest peaks in the world.

Year 9 are looking at marine environments, which involves work on why the coast is crowded, world trade by sea routes and destruction of marine ecosystems such as coral reefs.

Stories from Pakistan

A Year 8 class recently had a “Meet a Geographer” event when we were joined in school by Prof. Candice Satchwell and Dr. Jacqueline Dodding (both from UCLAN) as part of the “Stories from Pakistan” project that looks into differing perceptions and impacts of climate change in different parts of the world. The students took great interest in learning about the lives of students at the Mian Gul Model School in Peshawar, and went to great efforts to produce their sections of an eventual video that was shared with the girls at Mian Gul. We introduced them to our school and some students even used their bi-lingual skills to talk in Urdu. Very impressive!

This was a useful insight into the lives of others and an excellent piece of independent work when it came to the videos. Both Prof. Satchwell and Dr. Dodding were very complimentary about the students, and have indicated they plan to come back to do some further work in 2024.

Mr Bowles

Curriculum Leader for Geography

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