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A knowledge of Geography helps students to make sense of their surroundings and promotes an awareness of people, the places in which they live and their needs.

It is important they should be aware of their local environment and activities, which will affect them personally as responsible citizens of the future.

They should also develop knowledge of much wider social, political and environmental issues and be encouraged to appreciate other people's beliefs, attitudes and values.

Geography provides opportunities for pupils to reflect on the amazing variety in environments and peoples across the globe.

Reflect on differences and similarities between peoples in near and distant parts of the world.

Experience awe and wonder at different aspects of the natural world, especially places of outstanding beauty, e.g. physical landscapes such as mountains, hills, valleys, river and ice features and seascapes.

Reflect on the power and implications of the workings of nature, e.g. the consequences of natural events such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and flooding.

Experience awe and wonder at the best achievements of a built environment, e.g. stunning urban architecture or civil engineering on a grand scale, such as the Thames Barrier, the Channel Tunnel, Canary Wharf in London, the Millennium Dome and smaller urban regeneration areas such as attractive residential areas around former docks.

Consider the moral and practical issues of pollution, conservation and sustainability of our environment.

Raise questions about the ambiguous nature of some achievements, e.g. the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids.

Explore and develop their personal attitudes and values and those of their own culture in relation to those of other cultures, e.g. the role of women in some developing countries whilst seeming inappropriate by Western standards, may represent an appropriate division of labour in a developing country given its current state of development.