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.
