Teachers deliver an enquiry led, creative Geography curriculum that enthuses children’s natural curiosity of geographical knowledge and understanding. We use the Oddizzi scheme as a basis for our Geography learning. This is then adapted to meet the needs of our children.
The Geography curriculum gives children the opportunity to:
- Retrieve prior learning each lesson through ‘Geog your memory’ activities. These activities encourage children to think about what they learned last lesson, earlier that year, previous years and locational skills.
- Develop a sense of place, enabling children to make comparisons with other places.
- Encourage children to appreciate their inter-relationships between human and physical processes and their impact on people and environments.
- Help children develop an informed concern about and sense of responsibility for the quality of their environment, local and global.
- Develop an appreciation for what ‘global citizenship’ means.
- Broaden children’s awareness of and sensitivity towards other cultures, both within the UK and worldwide.
- Celebrate similarities, diversity and interdependence.
- Encourage children to pose geographical questions and develop the strategies and skills needed to answer them.
- A skills wheel is used during lessons and on displays to encourage children to think about how questions can be answered, and to understand the skills geographers would use.
Children will be able to:
- Develop a love for the world.
- Make observations in the human and physical environment.
- Locate using maps both digital and physical, atlases and compass points.
- Think critically about significant global issues.
- Interpret through a range of sources.
- Report data through maps, digital presentations, numerical and writing skills.
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Talk confidently using geographical vocabulary.