GA response to the Curriculum and Assessment review

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A cross posting from my GA Presidents' blog.

You can read the GA's response to the call for evidence as part of the Curriculum for Assessment review by following this link.


They 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.

The GA team 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.
This is is the initial call for evidence.

Well done to Steve Brace, Becky Kitchen, Jon Cannell and all who contributed to this work.

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