AQA Pre-release 2022

I was told yesterday that the AQA GCSE pre-release material for the 2022 summer exam season was based in / or mentioned Ely, so I asked for a copy and discovered that it was based on an application by Amey to add an incinerator to their existing waste management park near Waterbeach / Denny Abbey to the south of Ely, along the A10.

The scheme was controversial, although the benefits were clearly stated by the company. A protest group was set up, and commissioned a report on the impact of the proposal, which included mention of the chimney which would be taller than Ely Cathedral and spoil the view towards it from Madingley (a place of geographical significance).

Interestingly, for a pre-release where students usually have to weigh up whether a planned development should go ahead, the decision has already been made in that the scheme was .... spoiler alert.... turned down in 2020.

I tried to add some local contexts - newspaper articles, campaign group reports, local landscape character analysis reports etc. into the mix and shared to the community - AQA is the most popular GCSE specification choice so there will be lots of teachers looking to prepare something on this, and we are all working at our limits at the moment with hybrid learning for many still due to students recovering at home from COVID.

Anthony Bennett has added a copy of the document to his page of pre-release materials. This is available to subscribers and non-subscribers of Internet Geography.

An editable version is below or on this link...

Feel free to download a copy and add your own ideas to the document - there have already been some deletions from the document which is a little disappointing, but I have been able to recover to previous versions.

Images: Alan Parkinson and shared under CC license

Geographical Skills

There's plenty of resources on the Firefly page for this topic. Click on STUDY SUPPORT in the GEOGRAPHY>YEAR 12 section of the site.

Also check out Slideshare where you will find other teachers sharing their work too, and appropriate searches. There's a huge range of potential questions that you could be asked about this.

AQA Geography Geog2 from Will Williams

Will Williams

Remember that we have a revision session on the morning of Saturday May the 7th.

Types of Diagrams

We are now in revision period with Year 12s as the study leave approaches. We will use this to consider the benefits of particular types of diagram.
You can place an image in the middle and then fill in the boxes around it.

Types of Diagrams from GeoBlogs

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