Our Geography Curriculum

The world in which we live is a beautiful, precious and diverse. We live in an interconnected world and geography helps to explain how we are connected. At Chambersbury Primary School we aim to develop the children’s love the world around them through geography and inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination for the planet and their place in it. Linking in with our school vision the so they can grow up to be “change-makers” and “assets” in the community, society and world they live in.

Intent

In order to fulfil our vision, we follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Statuary Framework and the programmes of study of the National Curriculum for Geography. Our teaching equips pupils with knowledge about places and people, resources in the environment and an understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes that have shaped our landscape and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the framework to explain how the Earth’s features are shaped, interconnected and change over time. We also want the children to develop geographical skills: collecting and analysing data, using maps, atlases, globes, aerial photographs and digital mapping to name, identify and locate countries, continents and oceans. We want the children to be able to communicate their learning in a variety of ways including sketch maps with a key and diagrams, tables and graphs and writing. We want the children to enjoy and love learning about geography both inside and outside the classroom. We believe that educational visits are an essential way to develop fieldwork and to enable children practice their geographical skills.

Implementation

Geography is taught in all Key Stages. It is taught as a topic for term per year group. Each topic will teach the children locational and place knowledge, aspects of human and physical geography as well as developing a range of geographical skills and fieldwork. The curriculum is designed to build on the children’s prior learning and to widen their knowledge of world from their immediate surroundings and locality to countries in Europe and in other continents. Children will learn through a range of engaging, exciting experiences using the Early Years Foundation Stage Statuary Framework and Development Matters statements for the foundations of Geography and move to the National Curriculum for KS1 and KS2. Children will be assessed against the ‘I can’ statements for each year group.

Impact

Geographers ask questions: where things are located on the surface of the earth, why they are located where they are, how places differ from one another and how people interact with the environment. By the time the children leave Chambersbury Primary School we want them to have enjoyed learning about geography, to equip them with necessary geographical skills and knowledge to enable them to be ready for the curriculum at Key Stage 3 and hopefully Key Stage 4. Geography is such a broad subject that some students may study aspects of it at University. However, most of all, in this ever-changing world, the study of geography will deepen their knowledge of the places and peoples across the world and encourage them to explore, ask questions and undertake new experiences both now and in the future.