Studying Geography will help you better understand the world’s people, places and environments from the local to the global scales. This course will enable you to explore and evaluate contemporary geographical questions and issues such as the consequences of globalisation, responses to hazards, water insecurity and climate change. Students are given the opportunity to work in groups and to make decisions as well as reaching conclusions based upon their findings. Students will gain much knowledge about the subject from researching events in the news linked specifically to Geography. • Dynamic Landscapes and Hazards (25% of A Level) including tectonic processes and hazards & landscape systems; focusing on coastal landscapes • Dynamic Places (25 % of A Level) including globalisation, shaping placeseither regenerating places or diverse places • Physical Systems and Sustainability (25% of A Level) including the water cycle and water insecurity, the carbon cycle and energy security and climate change futures • Human Systems and Geopolitics (25%) including superpowers, global development and connections plus either human rights and intervention or migration, identity and sovereignty Geography is taught in many different ways at BGGS. We place great emphasis of geographical and enquiry based skills. Students develop independent skills through the synoptic investigation of a contemporary issue and the independent A Level investigation which consists of a 3000 word report. Students develop and apply many of the skills they have acquired outside of the classroom. Fieldwork is carried out over four days and relates specifically to physical and human Geography.