Vision

Through our teaching of Geography at Edleston Primary School, we aim to develop the children’s love and understanding of the world around them. We hope to foster and inspire their curiosity, fascination, and willingness to protect the planet we all call home, and this will remain with them beyond their years in Edleston.

Intent

In order to do this, we follow the Programmes of Study taken from the National Curriculum for Geography. Our teaching equips pupils with knowledge about places and people, resources in the environment and an understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes that have shaped some of our landscape and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the framework to explain how the Earth’s features are shaped, interconnected and change over time. We also want the children to develop geographical skills through collecting and analysing data, including using maps or atlases, globes, aerial photographs, and digital mapping; and be able to name, identify and locate countries, continents, and oceans across the planet. We encourage the children to be able to communicate their learning through a variety of ways such as: diagrams, tables, graphs and of course writing. We aim to provide lessons in and outside of the classroom, which include fieldwork and educational visits, which enable the children to enjoy and be immersed in real life geography.

Implementation

Geography is taught throughout school, beginning in the Early Years, progressing through Key Stage 1, and continuing right up to the end of Key Stage 2. Each year’s group teaches progressive elements of the curriculum, focusing on different parts of the world in each year group. By the end of Upper Key Stage 2, we aim to have given our children a wide-ranging exposure to both human and physical geography, across many countries and continents throughout the world and that they have had the opportunity to explore and investigate places that are both close to and far away from home.

Each year group is taught skills and knowledge that include map work and field studies. They will be taught both human and physical aspects of Geography and how these have shaped environments and urban landscapes. Our curriculum is designed to build on each year’s previous learning, and embeds Flashback 4, that consolidates not only a child’s understanding of a subject, but also encourages their curiosity to find out more about it.

Foundation Stage.

Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology, and the environment. This is implemented through planned, purposeful play and through a mix of adult-led and child-initiated activities.

The world: our children will learn about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things. They will talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another. They will make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur and talk about changes that happen.

Impact

We are surrounded by the world we live in, and our surroundings have an effect on us all on a daily basis. Through the teaching of geographical knowledge and skills, we believe at Edleston that we encourage our children to be as responsible as they can be, and help to maintain and care for, not only the immediate world around them, but also for peoples and places across the world. We believe that knowing about and understanding the world around them, helps children develop this responsibility and gives them the confidence to implement changes that make our world a better place for everything that can be found here both now and in the future.