Years 7 to 9 follow a course incorporating the subject matter of the National Curriculum. The
course involves work at local, regional, national, international and global scales and provides
coverage of different parts of the world and different types of environments. Particular
emphasis is placed on the interaction between man and the physical environment.

Students will extend their knowledge and deepen their awareness of the world’s countries
using maps of the world focusing on environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts,
key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities. Students will understand
the key processes in physical geography relating to timescale and plate tectonics, rocks and
soils, weathering, and the weather and climate, hydrology and coasts.

Students will understand how human and physical processes interact to influence and change
environments and climate and how human activity relies on the effective functioning of
natural systems.