Department Staff 

Department Staff:

The department’s aim is to provide learners with an interesting and challenging curriculum, in a supportive environment, providing opportunities to develop their Geographical knowledge, skills and understanding and to develop a greater awareness and understanding of local and global issues. We wish to develop and foster a wonder of the world and its complexities whilst investigating and finding reasons to its processes and patterns and the interactions with humans. 

Topics taught are varied and relevant, and differentiated to enable all learners to access the curriculum and to stretch them to enable them to achieve their highest potential. Literacy, ICT and Numeracy skills are enhanced through the study of Geography. 

The Geography department has high expectations and aims to develop resourceful and independent learners and to prepare and equip them for life for when they leave Rhyl High School, for further study or employment.

Gil Grosvenor

• Geographic explorers

• Adventure landscapes

• The Geography of my stuff

• Climate change

• Who do we think we are?

• Wild weather

 

• Holiday paradise

• Fantastic places

• Megacities

• Who wants to live forever?

• Tectonics

• Coasts

 

• Flooding

• Health and wealth of nations

• Incredible India

• Extreme environments

• Conflict

• Welsh landscapes

• Distinctive landscapes in Wales

• River processes and change

• Coastal processes and change

• Sand dune ecosystems

• Urban-rural change

• Extreme weather

 

• Climate change

• Ecosystems

• Global cities

• Global inequalities

• Regional development

• Water resources

• Social development

 

75% linear end of Year 11 exam

25% controlled assessment completed in Year 10. Learners undertake two extended pieces of fieldwork outside of the classroom

 

The school homework club is available every day before/after school in a computer room to enable pupils to have support with their homework. Catch-up sessions for pupils who have missed work or want to get help on a topic if they are having any problems can be arranged with class teachers at lunch/after school.

GCSE revision sessions are also arranged for Yr 11 pupils throughout the year after school. (Please ask the class teacher for further details of these sessions.) In addition, exam workshops are also held after school on a Wednesday.

This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the different components of the travel industry and prepares them for further study at college or for a career in the travel industry. However, it is equally relevant and useful for those not wanting to necessarily follow a career in the travel industry.

 

Unit 1 The UK Travel and Tourism sector (this unit is examined)

Unit 2 UK Travel and Tourism destinations (class based assignments)

Unit 4 International Travel and Tourism destinations(class based assignments)

Unit 5 Factors effecting worldwide Travel and Tourism (class based assignments)

 

The Geography course follows WJEC Unit 2 Specification A

The Travel and Tourism course follows Edexcel BTEC Travel and Tourism Level 2 First Award

Geography Yr10 – Summer 2018

Travel and Tourism – January 2017, re-sit option June 2017