CURRICULUM STATEMENT GEOGRAPHY

‘Confident in God’s love for us, we commit ourselves to His service’

VISION

'Outstanding Geography brings the real world, with all it's excitement, complexity and challenges, into the classroom. It also takes students and teachers out of the classroom!'

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The Geography Department at The Sacred Heart Language College has extremely high expectations of all our students. We want to foster a lifelong love of Geography through varied activities both inside and outside the classroom and prepare well-rounded students for the world after 16, both as members of society and in whatever career path they choose to follow. With this in mind we have designed a curriculum that inspires outstanding learning, ensures progress and has WOW factor!

AIMS

The Geography Department at the Sacred Heart Language College aims to:

• Stimulate an interest in and a sense of wonder about places and people at all levels, from the personal to the global.
• Encourage questioning, investigation and critical thinking about the issues that affect students' lives, now and in the future.
• Strives to inspire our students to become global citizens by exploring their own place in the world and their values and responsibilities to other people, the environment and the sustainability of the planet.