Geography

What a Geography lesson can look like in our school:

Opportunities to inspire children’s curiosity about the world
A variety of activities and themed days to help children to learn about different countries and their cultures.
Children working individually or collaboratively to develop key Geographical skills focusing on map work, investigating human and physical geography and fieldwork.
Exciting Geography topics to provide children with the opportunity to explore and investigate the world around them.
A well planned ‘Progression of Skills’ to enable the children to work on and develop new skills in each Year.

This is our philosophy:

Children learning through exploring different topics whilst acquiring new skills.
Children developing an awareness of where different countries are located
To provide children with experiences to help them develop their understanding of different countries and their cultures, whilst comparing them to their own surroundings.
To celebrate and explore diversity

This is what we do:

Each year group have different geographical skills to focus on. The children will then progress through the skills as they move up the school.
The skills are covered through carefully selected topics (mapped across the whole school) that will enable the children to develop and use that skill.
By the time the children leave Year 6, they will have covered a wide range of geographical skills and topics.
Lessons may be taught discreetly or as a block of lessons – making links with other areas of the curriculum are embraced to provide a more meaningful learning experience
All children will get the opportunity to go on various trips to develop local, regional and global geography experiences

This is what you might typically see:

Enthusiastic, engaged learners
Curious children posing questions for research
Children focusing on a range of geographical locations. Recognising the differences between man-made and natural features within the landscape
Children developing their map work including understanding the purpose of the map key
Children being given the opportunity to learn about different countries in a meaningful context.
Themed days to allow children to further develop their knowledge and understanding of different countries and cultures
Children sharing their learning with others through displays
Planned outings to enable children to develop their fieldwork skills

This is how we know our pupils are doing well:

Lessons are planned based on geographical skills which are specific for each year group
Marking and feedback by teacher and peers
Photographic and video evidence
Displays of work with classes and around school, including Open Evening

This is the impact of our teaching:

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