Geography

Intent

Our Geography curriculum aims to develop pupils as curious, informed and responsible global citizens. Through carefully sequenced knowledge, pupils build an understanding of place, space, and human–physical interactions, enabling them to make sense of the world around them and their role within it.

The curriculum is underpinned by:

• Strong substantive knowledge (places, processes, environmental systems)
• Disciplinary thinking (fieldwork, map reading, data interpretation)
• A focus on vocabulary acquisition to support conceptual understanding
• A commitment to inclusion and adaptive teaching, ensuring all learners access ambitious content

Learning is planned progressively to move from local to global, enabling pupils to deepen understanding through meaningful connections.

Our Curriculum

Geographical work undertaken within the school has been carefully organised to provide breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding as well as developing skills. The development throughout each phase builds on children’s previous work.

Foundation Stage

In the Nursery and Reception classes Geography is taught as an integral part of topic work covered during the year. In the Foundation Stage Geography is about the children having the opportunities to find out and learn about the world they live in. The Geography side of the children’s work is related to the Knowledge and Understanding of the World objectives set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum.

Key Stages 1 

At Key Stage 1, Geography is about developing knowledge, skills and understanding relating to the children’s own environment and the people who live there and developing an awareness of the wider world through cross-curricular topics.  The children will learn where our school is in the world and the geographical features of our surroundings. They will focus on small localities, comparing our own to two different localities in Kenya.  

Key Stages 2

At Key Stage 2, Geography is about developing knowledge, skills and understanding relating to the human and physical geography of places, the location of places whilst developing an understanding of cultural diversity.  They will work at different scales in the United Kingdom and overseas to develop an appreciation of how places relate to each other and the wider world.  The children learn about the human and physical features of regions within the UK and compare these to regions in Europe such as Campania in Italy, The Western United States and the Amazon rainforest and Andes Mountains of South America.