Geography
Intent
Our geography curriculum encourages all children to understand our planet and become fascinated by its many places, people, resources and environments. We intend to provide children with an ambitious curriculum which develops them as geographers and widens their understanding of themselves and the world around them. We intend children to:
- Secure an important geographical perspective, through their growing knowledge of places, people, resources and physical and human processes.
- Understand the impact that geography has on our everyday lives and how this links with events and chronology.
- Develop an understanding and appreciation of their local area and the wider world so they can become well informed, global citizens of the future.
- Obtain sound locational knowledge of the world and an appreciation of the geographical features and events that make each place unique.
- Understand similarities and differences across the world and be able to use geographical vocabulary in order to discuss these.
- Be confident when using a variety of sources, including a range of maps, atlases and globes.
Implementation:
At Weston Favell, we teach an ambitious, high-quality geography curriculum which is carefully constructed to ensure children develop a solid understanding of geographical concepts and knowledge.
Geography is taught through the following high-dividend concepts:
- Sense of Place
- Global Links
- Diversity
- Representations of the World
- Sustainability
- Change
- Travel
- Commerce and Trade
- Community
- Settlement
- Locality
- Environment
Impact
By the end of Key Stage 2, children demonstrate sound geographical knowledge and understanding and develop a curiosity and appreciation for their locality, the wider World and its people.
What our children say:
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Year group |
What have you been learning in your lessons?
Have you learnt something new that you didn’t know before? |
What helps you to learn? |
Why is this subject important? |
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EYFS and KS1 |
L- We use maps in Geography J-We learnt about the countries that different food comes from E- We learn about how many food miles it takes for different foods to reach us |
L +E- The globes help us in our classroom E - Dictionaries help us to find words we aren’t sure of |
J- Because otherwise you wouldn’t know about the countries that are around you |
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KS2 |
M- We learn how to read maps to locate different things in our local area but also the world M-We’ve learnt about different countries like India D- We’ve been on trips to the park to look at nature J-We have learnt about rainforests and that there are many layers of different types of trees such as canopy and emergent layers C – Deforestation is a big problem |
D- Going outside and exploring helps me to learn like when we do fieldwork J-Diagrams help me understand and follow what the teacher is telling us J-Reading helps us learn new information O-Retrieval and vocabulary tasks are good to help us remember |
J- To learn more about the world O- It is interesting to learn about our local area and how it is different to other places in the country or the world J- It would be good for future jobs to remember what we learn in school |