Geography
“The study of geography is about more than just memorising places on a map, it’s about understanding the complexity of our world.” Barack Obama
Intent
We believe that Geography helps to provoke and answer questions about the natural and human world, encouraging children to develop a greater understanding of their world and their place and responsibilities within it. Geography helps children to develop a range of investigation and problem-solving skills that are transferable to other curriculum areas and which can be used to promote children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Geography is, by nature, an investigative subject, which develops an understanding of concepts, knowledge and skills and feeds a child’s natural curiosity. We seek to inspire in children curiosity and fascination about the world in which they live, and its people, which will remain with them for the rest of their lives; to promote children’s interest and understanding about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. We aim to ensure children are aware of topical geographical issues, the importance of sustainability and human action upon our world and armed with this knowledge debate and make decisions about how they chose to live.
Implementation
Each topic covered is vocabulary rich, as to ensure the children will be secured in their geographical understanding. We make cross curriculum links in history, English and science where possible. Visits to places within and beyond the locality are used to develop children’s understanding of the world in which they live. We would love to visit some of the ‘far away’ places we study through our geography curriculum but have to explore these places using online research and atlases!
Through the framework of the 2014 National Curriculum, geography taught at Hedon Primary School, aims to ensure that all children:
develop age-appropriate, accurate knowledge of the location, physical and human characteristics of a wide range of globally significant places including terrestrial and marine locations
to use this knowledge to provide a geographical context to study and understand the actions of important geographical processes
understand that these processes give rise to the key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about variation and change to the geographical landscape
to be able to use geographical vocabulary which is appropriate and accurate and which develops and evolves from EYFS to KS1 and through to KS2
Across KS2, Geography is taught over a term and a half to provide a greater depth of knowledge and understanding.
Collect, analyse and present a range of data, gathered through experiences of fieldwork, to deepen understanding of geographical processes
use and interpret a wide range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes and aerial photographs
are able to communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length
to promote children’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development helping them to have a greater understanding of their place in the world, and their rights and responsibilities to other people and the environment
Impact
Through the geography curriculum delivered at Hedon, we strive to create a supportive and collaborative ethos for learning by providing investigative and enquiry based learning opportunities. We aim for our children to develop a greater understanding of their immediate locality as well as an understanding that we live in one small part of the world we have been given, a world which is very diverse in terms of both people and places. Children will leave our school with an understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes and how this affects landscapes and environments. It is our aim that the geography curriculum taught at Hedon equips children with key knowledge and skills, as set out in the National Curriculum, but also with a sense of awareness of themselves as people within a wide world and the impact that they, as people, can have upon the world in which they live.
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