Robin asked

"As a matter of interest do you do AQA Geography 2030 and do the
Weather hazards module."

Yes Robin, as you would expect, weather is an important part of the curriculum at Bablake! The school have invested a quarter of a million pounds into our weather centre, so they do expect some return on the investmant!

I teach the AQA weather & climate A2 unit (it's not just weather hazards) in the AQA specification; the students do find it challenging to be honest, just been teaching "general circulation of the atmosphere" for example and some cannot quite pice it all together. We also teach GCSE AQA including the weather & climate unit there, so they all do have some background.

The A2 weather & climate course is similar in standard to the one I did at university, including tephigrams for example, so I do understand how they struggle. We have been looking at upper air charts this week, as they have to understand Rossby waves, hence our investigation of forecasting models.

We also teach the tectonics and world cities unit.

best wishes

Steve J