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The GA would like to thank the 400+ teachers, alongside the GA’s strategic and many other partners, who shared their views with us about the geography curriculum. Your views have informed our consultation response to the Review of Curriculum and Assessment.
The consultation document attached provides a narrative of the Geographical Association’s response to the Review, through which we highlight geography’s unique curriculum contribution across KS1, 2 and 3, at GCSE and A level.
We have called for teaching about climate change, sustainability and green skills to be strengthened in geography in the following ways:
- Climate change should be added to the KS2 curriculum and strengthened at KS3.
- Geography’s curriculum and qualifications ‘aims and purpose’ should include reference to the subject contribution to pupils’ green skills.
We have also identified:
- how there is some repetition of content across the primary and secondary geography National Curriculum
- how GCSE geography’s content needs review and reduction, and how the assessment of fieldwork at GCSE needs reform
- the opportunity to achieve greater consistency between geography A level’s NEA and those in other subject areas – especially with reference to teacher guidance and support and word count
- the need to support and strengthen geographical fieldwork at all stages
- and to strengthen pupils use of geospatial data and technologies.
