Implementation.

We follow a carefully planned progression of skills and knowledge from Reception to Year 6.

The curriculum is carefully structured to support pupils in developing foundational and pre-requisite knowledge so that they are well prepared to access later content. Pupils make connections between prior and new learning and practice the skills, techniques and methods taught with increasing proficiency.

Our geography curriculum has a spiral structure and is planned to:

• Have increasing complexity; so that each time a skill or area of knowledge is revisited it is covered more fully allowing pupils to make connections
• Build on prior knowledge so that pupils can build on skills and knowledge that they have already learnt including opportunities to consolidate understanding of locational knowledge
• Provide a strong understanding of locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography and geographical skills and fieldwork and the ways that these are interconnected
• Be inclusive, so that all can have rich encounters with their environment and deepen their understanding of it so that later learning is based on a solid foundation

Pupils in key stages one and two will be taught three units of geography each year.

Impact

The impact of the geography curriculum will be evident through pupils’ work showing:

• A strong focus on developing geographical skills and knowledge so that the features of various places in the UK and further afield can be compared
• Critical thinking, with the ability to ask perceptive questions and explain and analyse evidence
• The development of fieldwork skills across each year group
• A deep interest and knowledge of pupils’ locality and how it differs from other areas of the world
• A growing understanding of geographical concepts, terms and vocabulary
• Pupil’s readiness for their future learning

Impact will be monitored by teachers and leaders in line with the teaching and learning policy.