Geography
How you can help your child in Key Stage Three:
- Watch the news regularly and discuss the causes and effects of global issues.
- Encourage them to talk about what they have learnt after each lesson – you might want to ask for their book to start the conversation.
- Visit local areas of interest and discuss why that place is like it is – e.g. Burrs Park and the River Irwell.
- Ensure they have an atlas to refer to and support them to investigate where places are in relation to each other.
- Listen to the National Geographic Kids Podcast.
- Encourage them to complete the activities in the Academic Booklet for each unit.
How you can help your child in Key Stage Four (AQA):
- Use the knowledge organisers to stimulate discussion about a specific topic and encourage them to talk about it using technical vocabulary.
- Support them in creating five flashcards each week about their learning with a question on one side and the response on the other (this could be a simple definition, a longer answer, or a diagram).
- Buy them a revision guide (available from the school library) and use it to quiz them on topics they have studied already.
- Use the YouTube channel ‘Time for Geography’ to watch short videos about physical geography and then discuss these together.
