Implementation

We follow a carefully planned progression of skills and knowledge from Reception to Year 6.

The curriculum is carefully structured to support pupils in developing foundational and pre-requisite knowledge so that they are well-prepared to access later content. Pupils make connections between prior and new learning and practice the skills, techniques and methods taught with increasing proficiency.

Our geography curriculum has a spiral structure and is planned to:

• It has increasing complexity, so that each time a skill or area of knowledge is revisited it is covered more fully allowing pupils to make connections.
• Build on prior knowledge so that pupils can build on skills and knowledge that they have already learnt, including opportunities to consolidate understanding of locational knowledge.
• Provide a strong understanding of locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography and geographical skills and fieldwork and the ways that these are interconnected
• Be inclusive, so that all can have rich encounters with their environment and deepen their understanding of it so that later learning is based on a solid foundation.

Impact

The impact of the geography curriculum will be evident through pupils’ work showing:

• A strong focus on developing geographical skills and knowledge so that the features of various places in the UK and further afield can be compared
• Critical thinking, with the ability to ask perceptive questions and explain and analyse evidence
• The development of fieldwork skills across each year group
• A deep interest in and knowledge of pupils’ locality and how it differs from other areas of the world
• A growing understanding of geographical concepts, terms and vocabulary
• Pupil’s readiness for their future learning