WATFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

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WATFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLSGEOGRAPHY
DEPARTMENT
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STAFF

• Mrs. S. Edwards Head of department
• Miss R Aldridge Second in Department
• Mrs S Day
• Mrs P Gallagher
• Mrs W Ho

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KEY STAGE 3

• Year 7
• Map skills
• Settlement
• Flooding
• Changing shopping patterns
• Plate tectonics

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KEY STAGE 3

• Year 8
• The Geography of crime
• Energy
• Brazil
• Ecosystems the rainforest
• Coasts

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KEY STAGE 3

• Year 9
• Tourism
• Development
• The Global fashion industry
• Antarctica
• France

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KEY STAGE 4AQA syllabus A

• Year 10
• Geographical skills
• Settlement
• Coasts
• Rivers

• Year 11
• Plate tectonics
• Industry
• Development

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SIXTH FORMEDEXCEL syllabus A

• Year 12
• Plate tectonics
• Rivers
• Coasts
• Settlement
• Population

• Year 13
• Glaciation
• Weather and climate
• Economic systems
• Development

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FIELDWORK

• Year 7 St Albans
• Year 8 Walton on the Naze
• Year 9 Bourton on the Water
• Year 10 Eastbourne (Residential)
• Year 11 London
• Year 12 Preston Montford (Residential)

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OTHER GEOGRAPHY TRIPS

• Iceland 1999
• Lake District 2000
• Iceland 2005 (Joint with WBGS)

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GEOGRAPHY CLUBS

• Junior Geography Club
• Exploding volcanoes
• Geographical mobiles
• Jigsaws
• Quizzes
• Treasure Hunts

• Senior Geography Club
• Women in Geography
• Geography at University
• Global warming

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DEPARTMENT ACHIEVEMENTS

• GEOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
• 2000 Finalist Helen Macaulay
• 2001 Finalist Rachel Swain
• 2004 Runner up Angela Barrett
• 2005 Commended Bhairavi Shirananda, Julia
  Grant.

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Department achievements

• World Wise Quiz
• Our team came second in the Local round of the
  quiz in 2005