Geography
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Geography Curriculum at St Edward’s
Intent
‘In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.’ Rachel Carson.
Geography is a subject through which we aim to inspire pupils with a curiosity and fascination about the world.
At St Edward’s we believe that Geography allows children to begin to understand their place in our world, considering what is familiar to them, but also how their ‘world’ is different to that of others.
Geography allows children to develop their understanding of their immediate environment (home, school, town) and how they are part of a bigger environment (country, continent, world). This then builds their knowledge of the wider world and how people and places differ both in terms of physical characteristics and human characteristics.
We believe that the locational knowledge acquired during geography lessons crucially provides children with a context in which new learning across the curriculum can be embedded.
We deliver the 4 strands of the National Curriculum (locational knowledge, human and physical geography, place knowledge and geographical skills and fieldwork) via topics. We have used Curriculum Maestro materials as a skeleton and have developed a sequenced progression of sticky knowledge and skills around which all teaching is based.
We have also used the Tanner Framework to develop clarity about expectations with geographical fieldwork across the school. The long-term curriculum plan provides for frequent and repeated opportunities for fieldwork as an integral element of purposeful geographical investigations.
