ATTENTION YEAR 11 - important information

You don't have much time before the final exam (Weds 12th June 2013). This exam is worth 50% of your final grade and it is really important that you revise properly for it. You must remember that only 3 out of the 4 topics you have studied will be tested in this exam. In January you sat the SDME exam on the Population & Settlement theme and this will NOT be tested in the final exam - you will only face questions on the following units:
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
RIVERS & COASTS
NATURAL HAZARDS

So, you must revise these topics and the case studies that go with them carefully. This blog has lots of useful revision tips and links (search for them). The Geography dept page on the school VLE aslo has lots of really useful materials on it.
This website, designed by a teacher in another school,  is also an excellent source for revision and you really should visit it

Follow these links to be taken to pages of case studies produced by a Geography teacher called Richard Briggs. They are not the same case studies that you would have studied in your lessons but are good if you have misplaced case study sheets or just some some additional information to revise from.
Rivers and Coasts
Natural Hazards
Economic Development

For those of you who are re-sitting the SDME exam, you should be aware that this time the exam will be on Natural Hazards. The pre-release booklet is available here. Make sure you download a copy and go through it.

Year 13 Unit 4 Pre-release, 2012

The pre-release EXPLORE and FOCUS themes are now available on the Edexcel website. Remember, the explore idea is about the theme that you should now focus on and the research is more about the examples and case studies that you need to find.

Click the heading to be taken there, although this the information relevant to us......


OPTION 2: Cold Environments – Landscapes and Change
• Explore the processes which shaped the landscape during the Pleistocene within a
region such as the British Isles.
• Research the wide variety of landscapes and landforms created at differing scales by
glacial and periglacial processes within a chosen region.

OPTION 3: Life on the Margins – the Food Supply Problem
• Explore the need for, and effectiveness of, different strategies that are designed to
improve food security.
• Research a range of food security strategies, including ‘sustainable’ ones, at differing
scales and locations.


OPTION 5: Pollution and Human Health at Risk
• Explore the relative health risks from incidental and sustained pollution, and how and
why these vary both spatially and over time.
• Research locations at varying scales and levels of development, that have experienced
or are experiencing health risks from different types of pollution

Pre-release material for unit 4 (Year 13 students)

The pre-release materials will be available on the 9th December 2010. You can find it by following this link.
You will not be able to take this material into the exam with you.

Year 13 pre-release materials

Just a quick note to remind current Year 13 students that pre-release material for unit 3 and 4 will be available from May 4th 2010.