Geography

Encourage Aspirational change: Consider issues which face the local community and those on a global scale (e.g. plastic pollution) and consider how all our pupils strive to be part of a solution. ​

Foster Belonging: To equip students with the knowledge and skills to explore diverse environments, cultures, and geographies, cultivating a sense of belonging to both a local and global community.​

Create Caring and Sustainability Awareness: Recognising our responsibility as global citizens to care for the planet and all its inhabitants, emphasising the importance of sustainability and ethical considerations in geographic contexts.​

Discover our local and global world: develop understanding of different places in our own community and around the world. Through thoughtful exploration and investigation (including research, map work and field work), students will discover the interconnections that shape our world, encouraging them to think critically about the social, economic, and environmental challenges we face today.

​Intent

At Penwortham Primary School, our Geography curriculum encourages pupil’s curiosity and fascination about our world and those who live in it. Our aim is for all children to understand the world in which they live, both locally and the world beyond and an appreciation of the natural world. ​

• We aim to teach our children the following key concepts:​

• Investigate places​

• Investigate patterns​

• Communicate geographically​

• This vision is achieved by giving pupils the opportunity to explore the surroundings and environments around them, and those in the wider world along with a variety of human and physical features. Our scheme of work has been designed ​

• Pupils will develop an appreciation for the similarities and differences between places and their cultures and the changes through time. Our “Personal Best” values and Geography curriculum complement one another by encouraging children to become responsible, global citizens and equips our pupils with the skills, curiosity and courage necessary to navigate and explore. Geography has particular links to the values of responsibility, respect and curiosity.

Implementation: ​

• We encourage pupils to “think like a Geographer” by replicating the ways that geographer's question and explain the world. To encourage this, we use an enquiry cycle when planning fieldwork studies and tenable pupils to learn how geographers reach their conclusions through enquiry.  Children in EYFS learn through a topic-based curriculum that focuses on developing their knowledge and understanding of the world (Early Learning Goal). We have carefully selected units of learning to ensure full coverage of the National Curriculum under the four strands:​

• Locational knowledge​

• Place knowledge​

• Human and physical geography​

• Geographical skills and fieldwork​

Our KS1 & KS2 scheme of work is a spiral curriculum, with essential knowledge and skills revisited with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Locational knowledge, in particular, will be reviewed in each unit to coincide with our belief that this will consolidate children’s understanding of key concepts, such as scale and place, in Geography. Cross-curricular links are included throughout each unit, allowing children to make connections and apply their Geography skills to other areas of learning.