Geography

Intent

At Middleton St Mary’s CE (VC) Primary school we shape our Geography curriculum to ensure it is fully inclusive for every child. Our intent is to provide a broad, balanced and differentiated curriculum that encompasses British Values and provides ambition and challenge, while ensuring it is accessible to all learners and fulfils the requirements of the National Curriculum for Geography.

Through our teaching of Geography children will learn skills which will help them to understand where we are in the world, how places and people are interconnected and how the world has changed over time. They will learn key factual knowledge and understand geographical concepts and abstract terms. This will be delivered through classroom experiences, map and atlas work, fieldwork, practical activities, cross curricular learning, discussion and educational visits. Great importance is given to our Geography curriculum as we believe this helps to:

• enable children to gain knowledge and understanding of places in the world;
• increase children’s knowledge of other cultures and, in so doing, teach a respect and understanding of what it means to be a positive citizen in a multi-cultural country;
• allow children to learn graphic skills, including how to use, draw and interpret maps;
• enable children to know and understand environmental problems at a local, regional and global level;
• encourage in children a commitment to sustainable development and an appreciation of what ‘global citizenship’ means;
• understand how our local area has changed over time, helping children to develop a sense of pride
• understand the difference between human and physical geography and how these are inter-connected
• develop a variety of other skills, including those of enquiry, problem solving, Computing, investigation and how to present their conclusions in the most appropriate way.

Geography Autumn Knowledge Organisers

Geography Spring Knowledge Organisers

Geography Summer Knowledge Organisers