Or, if you're interested in different countries, cultures and travel, you could combine geography with French, German, Spanish or Travel and Tourism.

Geography examined the global effect of deforestation in a university-style lecture. International Development talks examined what is meant by international development and how students can help change the world.

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Retired Geography teacher, Oliver, was inspired by David Attenborouh’s Blue Planet, and became Community Leader of Plastic Free Eastbourne. His passion and enthusiasm was evident as he spoke to Business Services students about creating a more sustainable future.

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Zayn Wood, studied Biology, History and Geography in Eastbourne and is now progressing to the University of Sussex to study International Relations and Geography.

Teachers’ judgements will be subject to internal quality assurance which will include internal standardisation (so that, for example, two geography teachers make consistent judgements about their respective classes), and grades will be signed off by the head of department and the head of centre. Exam boards will also carry out quality assurance – reviewing the overall approach being taken by each school/college and also, for a sample of centres, reviewing a sample of the grading judgements made. Schools/colleges will be more likely to have their grading judgements reviewed if their results in 2021 are considerably higher or lower than in previous years when exams were held (that is, 2017, 2018 and 2019).

Eastbourne student Elysa Piccinini passed all four of her A Level exams, with an A in Italian, B in Law and Sociology and a C in Geography. Elysa is going to Royal Holloway, University of London to study Sociology and Criminology. BTEC student Grace Rolls-King achieved a triple D* (Distinction) in Health and Social Care. She is taking a gap year to work as a mentor at Willingdon School before taking up an offer from Roehampton University to study Primary Education.

The delight was clear to see on Chloe Lashmar’s face as she opened her results in Hastings to see a Distinction Star in Applied Science BTEC and a B in Geography. “I’ve done it and I couldn’t be happier! I’m really proud of my achievements and it means I can go to uni to study Paramedic Science.”

Hastings students celebrating their results included Samantha Richards, Martha Sankey and James Stringfellow. Two had chosen the Humanities pathway (Samantha achieved an A* in Psychology, and Martha achieved A* grades in English Literature, Geography and History), while James achieved fantastic A* grades in Chemistry, Maths and Physics.

If you’re the type of person that likes to keep their options open, then choosing facilitating subjects could be a good option. Many of the top universities look for facilitating subjects such as Geography, History, Physics, or French, because they equip you with critical thinking skills, the ability to research data, analyse data, and you are able to demonstrate your ability to learn and retain information.

Moving to Amsterdam and studying at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie was a unique and formative experience. I was surrounded by students from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines, and I learnt so much from the people I met there. It shaped how I now work with public space, geography and social norms within performance and film.

If finding vast outside space isn’t geographically possible, or maybe it feels overwhelming at the moment, explore ways of bringing nature indoors. A small and simple way to bring nature inside can be buying flowers or even taking photos of your favourite places in nature. Use these pictures as backgrounds on a mobile phone or computer screen as a reminder of those relaxing moments you have captured.