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The Shell (Year 9) course focuses on key global issues with an emphasis on creative and imaginative enquiry and problem solving. Core themes include wilderness Antarctica, Siberia and Amazonia, the study of hurricane and tsunami hazards, global warming and global poverty. Special topics are chosen by individual teachers and have included tobacco, water, islands, terrorism, China and India.
The AQA GCSE course provides for a mix of human and physical topics. The human topics are Globalisation, Sustainable Cities and Development while the physical topics are Glaciation, the Restless Earth and the Living World. Additionally pupils complete a fieldwork project which is written up under controlled conditions.
The AQA AS course is broad and varied with studies of coasts, energy, rivers and population. Pupils complete a practical module based on a Studland sand dune study.
The AQA A2 course includes the study of Development and Globalisation, Tectonic hazards and Ecosystems. Additionally, there is a fieldwork enquiry and an issues evaluation based on pre released material.
Geography is offered at IB Standard and Higher Level. Core topics include population, development, environmental quality and resource consumption. Option topics include Coasts, Hazards and Tourism and Leisure. There is an HL extension on Globalisation. IB students complete a fieldwork project based on a field course on the Dorset/Hampshire coast.
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