Geography
Our Statement of Intent
Our Geography curriculum aims to inspire in pupils a lifelong curiosity and fascination about the world and its people. By exploring both their immediate surroundings and the wider global context, we equip children with the knowledge and skills to understand the complexities of Earth’s physical and human processes, as well as the interconnectedness of places and environments. Through key specific themes children revisit and build upon key knowledge. As a school, we have developed our units of work using Chris Quigley’s Curriculum Companions to ensure key geographical skill sand concepts are embedded and interweaved within our curriculum to ensure that pupils develop the prerequisite geographical skills to enable to them to apply their knowledge in a range of contexts.
We intend to:
- Foster curiosity about the world, encouraging children to ask questions and seek answers about places, people, cultures, and environments.
- Equip pupils with locational knowledge, helping them understand key geographical terms and concepts such as continents, oceans, countries, regions, and cities.
- Develop a strong sense of place, enabling children to connect their local environment to broader global issues and understand the similarities and differences between different places.
- Encourage an understanding of human and physical geography, helping children explore how landscapes, climates, and ecosystems interact with human activities and cultures.
- Develop geographical skills such as map reading, fieldwork, and data analysis, empowering students to interpret and present geographical information accurately.
- Help children understand the importance of sustainability, environmental responsibility, and the impact of human activity on the natural world.
- Promote critical thinking and decision-making, allowing pupils to consider how geographical issues such as climate change, urbanization, and conservation affect the world today and in the future.
- Provide opportunities for outdoor learning, including fieldwork in local and distant environments, to bring geographical concepts to life.
- Link learning through key themes to ensure knowledge is built upon in logical sequences these include: Location, place, Human and physical features, interdependence, techniques, diversity, scale and environmental impact.
Through our geography curriculum, we aim to nurture responsible global citizens who are informed, empathetic, and capable of making thoughtful contributions to the world’s challenges.
