With levels going, my school will now grade students using foundation, secure and deep at KS3. As teachers we should teach to the secure level and differentiate up and down as appropriate. The new geography GCSE looks to be considerably more difficult with less emphasis on description and more on higher level thinking such as explanation and evaluation. In particular, inference of source requires explanation and evaluation and as such I have tried to incorporate more of these skills into KS3. In order to do this I have kept the AO’s the same as the GCSE. This is a work in progress and as there is very limited detail on what the AO’s actually mean at GCSE it will certainly change as the picture becomes clearer. As an NQT I would love some feedback on this as I'm sure there are some more experienced colleagues who could add some really useful insights. Alternatively I hope it helps others make a start. Many thanks, Tom

A card sort to be used post teacher exposition. Designed to get students thinking about the positive and negative impacts of top down and bottom up schemes.

A lesson exploring the characteristics of a developed country, namely Singapore.

A lesson designed to prepare students about to undergo fieldwork for their NEA. The lesson goes through skills and processes to ensure students know how to undertake a really good investigation.

With levels going, my school will now grade students using foundation, secure and deep at KS3. As teachers we should teach to the secure level and differentiate up and down as appropriate. The new geography GCSE looks to be considerably more difficult with less emphasis on description and more on higher level thinking such as explanation and evaluation. In particular, inference of source requires explanation and evaluation and as such I have tried to incorporate more of these skills into KS3. In order to do this I have kept the AO’s the same as the GCSE. This is a work in progress and as there is very limited detail on what the AO’s actually mean at GCSE it will certainly change as the picture becomes clearer. As an NQT I would love some feedback on this as I'm sure there are some more experienced colleagues who could add some really useful insights. Alternatively I hope it helps others make a start. Many thanks, Tom

With levels going, my school will now grade students using foundation, secure and deep at KS3. As teachers we should teach to the secure level and differentiate up and down as appropriate. The new geography GCSE looks to be considerably more difficult with less emphasis on description and more on higher level thinking such as explanation and evaluation. In particular, inference of source requires explanation and evaluation and as such I have tried to incorporate more of these skills into KS3. In order to do this I have kept the AO’s the same as the GCSE. This is a work in progress and as there is very limited detail on what the AO’s actually mean at GCSE it will certainly change as the picture becomes clearer. As an NQT I would love some feedback on this as I'm sure there are some more experienced colleagues who could add some really useful insights. Alternatively I hope it helps others make a start. Many thanks, Tom

With levels going, my school will now grade students using foundation, secure and deep at KS3. As teachers we should teach to the secure level and differentiate up and down as appropriate. The new geography GCSE looks to be considerably more difficult with less emphasis on description and more on higher level thinking such as explanation and evaluation. In particular, inference of source requires explanation and evaluation and as such I have tried to incorporate more of these skills into KS3. In order to do this I have kept the AO’s the same as the GCSE. This is a work in progress and as there is very limited detail on what the AO’s actually mean at GCSE it will certainly change as the picture becomes clearer. As an NQT I would love some feedback on this as I'm sure there are some more experienced colleagues who could add some really useful insights. Alternatively I hope it helps others make a start. Many thanks, Tom