Geography Curriculum Map 2023-2024
Geography is a study of how the world works. It has the potential to capture the minds of children like no other subject. The National Curriculum (2014) states, “A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.”
Intent
At Greenbank Primary School, we believe that Geography inspires a long-lasting curiosity and fascination about the world and its people and places. Our aim is for children to develop a sense of wonder about their immediate surroundings and the wider world that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. We nurture this through an inclusive, well-sequenced and progressive curriculum through which we equip Geographers at Greenbank to be able to:
- develop an excellent knowledge of where places are and what they are like.
- interact and engage in the world around them-both locally and globally.
- talk like a Geographer using geographical vocabulary with increasing confidence
- communicate and discuss their geography learning with passion and enthusiasm
- discover answers to their own questions through exploration and research in order to gain a greater knowledge and understanding of the world and their impact upon it.
- Develop transferable enquiry skills that they will need in the future so they can confidently take their place in a modern, diverse society.
Our children are the geographers of the future. The enjoyment of the subject will be enhanced through experiences both in and out of the classroom, such as fieldwork and educational visits.
Implementation
In ensuring high standards of teaching and learning in geography, we have implemented a curriculum that builds progressively on prior learning and that meets the requirements of the 2014 National Curriculum. We ensure that there are opportunities for children of all abilities to develop their:
• Geographical enquiry and skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of places.
• Knowledge and understanding of patterns and processes.
• Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development
We use a variety of teaching and learning styles in our geography lessons and cross-curricular links are encouraged. We encourage children to ask as well as answer geographical questions. We offer them the opportunity to use a variety of data, such as maps, statistics, graphs, pictures, and aerial photographs. We enable them to use ICT, where appropriate, in geography lessons to access mapping software; interpret data in the form of graphs or tables and to research geographical environments where this serves to enhance their learning. Children will experience fieldwork in a geographical context across all key stages.
At Greenbank Primary School, we are using the ‘Opening Worlds’ Humanities Curriculum for our History and Geography learning in Key Stage 2.
