Geography
Intent
At St Wilfrid’s, our broad and balanced curriculum is ambitious and carefully designed to give all pupils, with a particular emphasis on those who are disadvantaged or with SEND, the knowledge and skills that they need to take advantage of opportunities, responsibilities and experiences in later life. It is deliberately planned and sequenced so that the end points that it is building towards are clear and that pupils develop knowledge and skills, directly linking to what has been taught before (through the ‘Power Pyramid’), to be able to reach those end points. The end points are evidenced through carefully tracked outcomes, product evaluations and assessments. Pupils learn the knowledge that they need to answer subject-specific questions and are able to practically demonstrate and apply the cyclical skills that they acquire, supported by deliberate exposure to cultural capital opportunities. Pupils make good progress due to the expert knowledge of subject leaders and teachers, ensuring that they know and remember more.
We want our children to develop curiosity and a desire to investigate their world and learn the skills to continue to be outside of school and into adulthood. We endeavour to provide a stimulating, engaging and challenging curriculum and learning environment as well as encouraging our children to follow and investigate their own interests. We want our children to develop a sound geographical knowledge starting with the United Kingdom and branching out to the world; the continents, countries, main physical features and human landmarks. Our curriculum intends to develop geographical skills; map reading, using ordnance survey maps, using atlases and understanding geographical data and terminology.
Implementation
We have designed our curriculum to fully cover the national curriculum and its expectations with discrete geography units. We ensure our children develop ‘sticky knowledge’ by making links to previous learning and building on existing skills. We develop geographical skills through practical and digital map making and field work and make pupils environmentally and geographically aware at a local, regional and global level. This builds to increase our pupils’ awareness and knowledge of other cultures.
Our curriculum is designed engage our pupils and to include all children whatever their needs. Access to online resources, special visitors and educational visits, ‘brings the learning to life’ for our children and enhances the learning experience.
Please follow the links and work through all the resources, children can write notes to share with us their accomplishments, what they have discovered and what they enjoyed learning the most. https://dfsresources.edina.ac.uk/resources/subject/primary-87
