Geography is the study of where places are found, what they are like and the relationships between people and their environments.
Geography is a valued part of our curriculum, providing a purposeful means for exploring, appreciating and understanding the world in which we live and how it has evolved. Geographical understanding is developed through selecting, organising and integrating knowledge through reasoning and making sense of the content in response to structured questions and well designed tasks that cause children to think like geographers.
The strands in Geography which we cover are:
- Locational knowledge
- Human and physical geography
- Geographical skills and fieldwork
- Place knowledge
The national curriculum for geography aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
- understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time
- are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
- collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
- interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
