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Our curriculum is designed to develop our students to ensure that they are:

  • Ambitious in their dreams and thinking
  • Confident in themselves and their abilities
  • Independent in their mind and actions
  • Creative in their problem-solving and imagination

Through their seven year Langton journey students follow:

  • Broad, balanced and coherent curriculum
  • Academically ambitious
  • Providing essential knowledge and skills for lifelong learning, cultural understanding and personal development
  • Supporting wellbeing, with community at its heart
  • Extended curriculum that takes learning beyond the confines of the NC and exam specifications
  • Develop transferable traits to prepare for next steps of life and to allow them to contribute positively to society and live happy healthy and fulfilled lives

Minimum Entry Criteria

Desired: 7 in Geography or contact the school if you have not studied the subject at GCSE

Essential: 6 in Geography or contact the school if you have not studied the subject at GCSE

Board

AQA

Outline of the Course

Year 12:

  • Coastal Landscapes (Section B – Physical Geography)
  • Global Systems and Governance (Section A – Human Geography)
  • Changing Places (Section B – Human Geography)
  • Water and Carbon (Section A – Physical Geography

Holiday Work Year 12-13: Review of topics covered in Year 12 – Teams

Year 13:

  • Hazards (Section C Physical Geography)
  • Population and the Environment (Section C Human Geography)
  • Geographical Fieldwork Investigation: 4,000 word Independent Report – Guided by teachers but student directed

Assessment

 

Type of Assessment

Duration

Weighting

1

Physical Paper

Section A: Water and carbon cycles

Section B: Coastal systems and landscapes

Section C: Hazards

2 hours 30 minutes

40%

2

Human Paper

Section A: Global systems and global governance

Section B: Changing places

Section C: Population and the environment

2 hours 30 minutes

40%

3

Students complete an individual investigation which must include data collected in the field. The individual investigation must be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student relating to any part of the specification content. Fieldwork: Residential visit end of Year 12 to FSC Flatford Mill, Suffolk £550 approx.

3,000-4,000 words

20%

Summer Assignment - GeographySixth Form Programme of Courses 

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