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Redcar & Cleveland
HUNTCLIFFE SCHOOL
SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA
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Status:
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Mixed Comprehensive Secondary 11-16 and Former Beacon School
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Head Teacher:
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Mrs R Headdon
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Number on roll:
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518
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KEY CONTACT
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Head of Geography:
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Mr Andrew Mansfield
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Tel:
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01287 622 178
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Fax:
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01287 622 299
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E-mail:
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geography@huntcliff.co.uk
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Geography Department EthosGeography is a gateway to knowledge and understanding of the world’s peoples, environments and resources. Through which students are encouraged to develop a sense of wonder, and to experience the excitement, of discovering our planet and its peoples.
To encourage exploration and appreciation of different cultures and thereby gain a better understanding and respect for our society’s values and attitudes.
To recognise that we live on a beautiful but finite planet, vulnerable to all human activities, the future of which will be determined by our individual and group actions today.
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Courses and Core TextsYear 7 - Making and mapping connections, Settlement, Exploring Britain, Earth: our changing home, Rivers, Coping with floods, and Plates, earthquakes and volcanoes
Core text Geog.1 (Oxford)
Year 8 – Coasts, Weather, Ecosystems, People and resources, Energy: a key resource, and Oi Brazil!
Core text Geog.2 (Oxford)
Year 9 – Development, Earning a living, Focus on France, Global fashion, Local actions, global effects, and Tourism – good or bad
Core text Geog.3 (Oxford)
Years 10-11 – AQA specification A - Using Essential Mapwork Skills (Nelson Thornes), Understanding GCSE Geography (Heinemann), and Complete Geography (Oxford)
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FieldworkYear 7 – North York Moors (Mapwork)
Year 8 – Saltburn (River and Coastal Studies)
Year 9 – Robin Hoods Bay and Whitby (Tourism)
Year 10 – Look at glaciation, tourism, settlement, agriculture and sustainability in the English Lake District and in North East Spain (Barcelona) this includes looking at tourism, settlements, urban development and change, transport, agriculture and water resources.
Gifted and talented students in years 9 and 10 undertake an additional field trip to London to look at tourism, inner-city redevelopment, land use change and transport.
CourseworkIn years 7, 8 and 9 students undertake one coursework enquiry per year, at GCSE student-selected hypothesis and title, independently researched, developed and presented.
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