Geography
Intent
The Longhill Primary School Geography curriculum is designed to provide children with an in-depth and broad understanding of our world by teaching a range of concepts within different contexts. The curriculum aims to develop pupils’ skills as geographers to ensure that they acquire geographical knowledge about physical and human geography in addition to being competent in geographical skills. Children will learn about local geography as well as that from around the world. They will have a good understanding of locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography and geographical skills/fieldwork in accordance with the National Curriculum. By teaching a range of concepts through different contexts, children will be able to link their geographical understanding to have a better understanding of places around the world.
Implementation
Geography is our Summer term curriculum driver. Our Geography curriculum is built around the idea of threshold concepts which are ‘big ideas’ that shape children’s thinking within each subject. The same threshold concepts will be explored in every year group, allowing children to build up their geographical knowledge each year. The key concepts that we aim to cover are:
- To investigate places
- To investigate patterns
- To communicate geographically
Children will be taught about these concepts across a range of contexts within each year group. These are referred to as “episodes”. The more children learn, the more they will be able to link their understanding of contexts together to build an overview of each concept. At Longhill Primary School, each milestones contains a range of procedural and semantic knowledge to give more detail to each concept. This allows children to steadily build up an understanding of the 3 main concepts through carefully sequenced learning and progression.
Impact
- Children can talk confidently about the 3 main concepts, linking to an appropriate context.
- Children can use geographical vocabulary to communicate and have a better understanding investigating places and patterns.
- Children can talk confidently about the details of physical and human geography of a range of places around the world.
- Children are equipped with the geographical skills to complete fieldwork, including using compass directions and mapping.
Click on the links below for a further detailed plans:
Please also refer to the Foundation Stage medium term plans
