PE

Our geography curriculum is tailored to inspire curiosity and interest in the world around us both locally and globally and the people that live in it. Through a progressive themed-based curriculum, pupils are taught to acquire the knowledge about the diversity in people, resources and both physical and human environments. Each year, pupils will deepen their knowledge and widen their geographical understanding and skills to explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time.

Planning Geography is structured around the National Curriculum and Geography skill progression sheets but is also tailored to the interest and needs of our pupils taking into account our local geographical surroundings and the importance of fieldwork using our outdoor area.

National Curriculum aims:

• develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
• understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time
• are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
• collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
• interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length