Our World
OF learning

In the department our motto is ‘Geography is everywhere and everything!’ and we work to ensure that our lessons are diverse and relevant. We are truly a subject for our times.

All our geography teachers are enthusiasts and have a great passion for our subject. We endeavour to transfer this approach to our classes. We hope that our students leave our lessons with a sense of wonder regarding our world’s complexity and for the huge diversity of its inhabitants. We hope that through our lessons they will develop a need to acquire knowledge, to know more, a willingness to investigate and question what they discover and through this develop understanding and ultimately wisdom. Most importantly we hope that our students gain a desire to act as custodians of our planet who act to protect it and strive for a sustainable future for all its residents.

We hope that our mission statement is reflected in the structure of our courses. Students study a wide range of issues across a broad spectrum of countries. We keep these topics current by constantly reviewing our lessons, ensuring source material relevant and up to date and continually updating our own knowledge and using our own experiences to enhance our teaching. In our lessons there is a strong emphasis on enquiry based learning and thinking skills which are enriched by the multitude of resource available in the twenty-first century classroom. Finally we try to encourage our students to find solutions to problems and to see that although they can only make a small contribution it is through the apparently insignificant acts of many that great changes can be made.