I have to admit that we are not using Twinkl as much for KS3 resources as we did for Primary resources (largely because we are using more student books) but I do still sometimes turn to it when I need something extra. (If you are wondering so far my most used KS3 resources from Twinkl have been their KS3 Maths pages, English literature units and some English Language activities).

But recently my son dropped a bit of an unexpected bomb (it really did feel like a bomb went off in my head) – he announced that he was going to do Geography as one of his IGCSE subjects. So a bit of context – about a year ago he was convinced he would not do Geography (much to my joy) so we have kind of neglected the Geography a bit (he is now Year 9). But logically speaking for the career paths that he is considering Geography does actually make sense and although he loves History he is not as much of a writer as his sister is and History IGCSE is heavy on writing longer questions. Anyway the shock announcement meant I now needed to start thinking of which exam board we would use for Geography (I don’t stick to one exam board) and which resources and boy oh boy did I mention the oldest just wrote her finals for IGCSE English Language, has 3 weeks before her History IGCSE finals and I am every so slightly stressed…………… So to help myself calm down and buy myself some time to form a Geography plan of attack (and I do not use the word attack here lightly) I had a quick look on the Twinkl website to see if I could download some general Geography resources. The ideas was to get us slowly back into doing Geography on a regular basis and hopefully help start adding to our Geography knowledge bank (I must admit the more that I thought about it the more I realized that he actually has quite a good basis just from all the reading that he does on biomes/ habitats/ conservation etc so the panic has started to ease up a bit – just a bit)

Anyway I had a quick look on Twinkl and stumbled onto their KS3/GCSE Geography Comprehension Bundle which I thought looked interesting and importantly it would buy me some time to do my research while also providing him with some Geography.

Oh – just to mention the printouts are in colour but my printer has been working overtime with my daughters IGCSE subjects and is now refusing to print in colour (really did I mention that I was stressed and now my printer is doing strange things).

So what exactly is included in this bundle (this is directly off their website)

Each one includes a fact sheet (the length varies from 1 page to 5 pages – well of the 4 that we have completed so far) and then there is a question sheet (normally 1 or 2 pages) and an answer sheet.

So far it is proving to be a very useful bundle and yes I am getting myself organized with Geography and I am drinking lots of coffee to help maintain a bit of sanity.

Admin – This post is not in any way linked to Twinkl, and is NOT a paid for post, this is just me sharing about a useful resource that I found