Fragile Planet Earth is our home. We all live our lives geographically. Our world is enormous, awesome, diverse, inspiring, ever changing and facing serious challenges. Studying geography invites our students to participate more fully in the excitement, enjoyment and challenge of this dynamic world. Our Geography curriculum is designed to be knowledge-rich, enabling our students to appreciate how local and global places and landscapes form, how people and environments interact, what consequences arise from our everyday decisions, and the diverse range of cultures and societies that exist and interconnect on planet Earth. It draws on personal experience, to help us better understand and have pride in the Solent, to know why this is vital for our students and how we are connected to a globalised world.  

Through geography, our students unlock their individual potential while learning to value and care for the planet and all its inhabitants. Geography is a subject which builds on our young people’s own experiences, helping them to formulate questions, develop their intellectual and literacy skills while finding answers to issues affecting their lives. Geography is a tool used to bridge curriculum gaps from scientific processes, mathematical skills and writing creativity. Geography helps us investigate and to think critically and creatively about the complexities of places, and different views and feelings relating to places. Fieldwork and outdoor education are essential to geography, helping develop significant skills with a strong emphasis on utilising maps and visual images. These transferable geographical skills help to equip our students for lifelong learning as responsible global citizens.