"Geography is a subject which holds the key to our future."
Michael Palin

Year 12 exploring Braunton Burrows sand dunes, Devon, 2008

The Geography Department aims to inspire and develop pupil enjoyment and understanding of the world around them.  We encourage pupils to investigate and ask questions about the world and to identify their connections on a local, national and global scale.  Enquiry is at the very heart of the subject and this is demonstrated by the extensive fieldwork programme offered to all year groups.  Pupils enjoy a range of activities in lessons that vary from fieldwork related tasks to role-play, ICT, map skills and atlas work.  We aim to make our lessons thought-provoking, inspiring and fun. 

The Department has a thriving Geography Club which meets on Friday lunchtimes.  Club members, with their pink badges, are involved in a range of fun activities, our viewings of Bear Grylls, Born Survivor programmes are very popular.  The girls love to see this survival expert munch his way through a multitude of creepy crawlies, beetle larvae are their favourite!

The Geography Department is a member of two professional organisations (The Geographical Association and the Royal Geographical Society) to support its teaching and learning programme.  In Easter 2007 HMSG took part in and won the national GA Worldwise Geography Competition held at Malham Tarn Field Studies Centre.  In August 2008 two sixth form Geographers took part in the 7^th International Geography Olympiad which was held in Tunisia.  In 2007 HMSG Geography Department was awarded the Geographical Association’s Secondary Geography Quality Mark Award in recognition of excellence in teaching and learning in Geography – click here for further details of this award.

Please view our departmental pages and feel free to contact us should you have any questions.

Mr Nick Meek
Head of Geography