Students are to gain an awareness of the different elements that make up our planet and how they interact. To explore how rocks and soils form and their importance to life. How we use earth’s natural resources and what renewable and non-renewables are.

Map skills, atlas skills. 
Key geographical language – compare/ describe/ outline

Exploration of the demise of coal fired stations in the UK – reference to fiddlers ferry locally.

Why is the world so dependent on oil?  How do we use our planet as a natural resource?

Checkpoint -key knowledge recall and application of key geographical skills explored

End point - All elements included in end of term summative test/exam
Cross Curricular
Science, History, Maths, English, ICT

Local to global economies, the ways the job sectors of the world are linked, the range of jobs available and how jobs have changed over time, why trade is important and how has it grown?

Map skills, drawing and annotating diagrams
Key geographical language –describe/ to what extent/ evaluate

Introduction to globalisation and how the container and the container ship has changed the world 

Checkpoint- Key knowledge recall and application of key geographical skills explored

End point- All elements included in end of term summative test/exam
Cross Curricular
Science, Maths, English, Business Studies

The concepts of weather and climate, how has weather and climate changed, the elements that make up the weather and climate, how we measure the weather and how we read the weather. Key focus - types of rainfall in the UK.

Map skills, drawing and annotating diagrams
key geographical language –describe/ to what extent/ evaluate

Explore and examine what depressions and anticyclones bring in terms of weather, exploring the UK weather and how its location affects it.

Checkpoint - key knowledge recall and application of key geographical skills explored

End point - All elements included in end of term summative test/exam
Cross Curricular
Science, Maths, English, PE, ICT

Students will explore whether the geography of Russia helps or hinder its economy and what is the future of its economy.

data analysis, mapping (spatial awareness), GIS use, consider the views of stakeholders.

Students will be introduced to nature of Russia, its vastness and how its population density is affected by its geography.

Checkpoint - key knowledge recall and application of key geographical skills explored

End point - All elements included in end of term summative test/exam
Cross Curricular
Science, History, Maths, English, PE, ICT, RE/ Ethics 

What rivers are and how water flows into the them, examining erosion, transportation and deposition, how do rivers evolve from source to mouth and shape the land and how do rivers flood and what can be done to manage the risk?

Students to explore a case study of the river tees and explore how its human use changes and how it is important for economic reasons

Checkpoint - key knowledge recall and application of key geographical skills explored

End point - All elements included in end of term summative test/exam
Cross Curricular
Science, Maths, ICT, PE, Design and Technology