Intent:

At Foresters Primary School, we believe all of our pupils can gain a deep understanding of geographical concepts, achieving their full potential in an inclusive environment. We aim to provide children with a broad, varied and engaging range of activities to stimulate their geographical thinking.

Implementation:

Geography is a valued part of the curriculum, providing a purposeful means for exploring, appreciating and understanding the world in which we live and how it has evolved. Geography explores the relationship between the Earth and its people through the study of their own and other locations, place knowledge, human and natural geographical process and features, and geographical skills and fieldwork. Geography is concerned with pupils learning about, engaging in and valuing their own locality, whilst becoming aware of and developing knowledge and understanding of the world beyond their own environment.  It encourages children to learn about the world’s changing environment and how people have and can influence that change.

Geography encourages children to learn through experience, particularly through practical and fieldwork activities.  At Foresters Primary School we believe it is important to build a geographical curriculum that endorses the importance for outdoor learning to build a curiosity for learning to help them to know more, remember more and understand more.

The strands in Geography are:

• Locational knowledge

• Place knowledge

• Human and physical geography

• Geographical skills and fieldwork

The aims of geography are:

• To inspire in pupils about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.

• To provide learning opportunities that enthuse, engage, and motivate children to learn and foster a sense of curiosity and wonder at the beauty of the world around them.

• To provide pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments and develop respect and understanding of a diverse and multicultural world.

• To develop a growing knowledge about the world to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments.

• To encourage in children a commitment to sustainable development and an appreciation of what ‘global citizenship’ means.

• To obtain Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills.

• To enable children to learn and explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time.

• To formulate appropriate questions, develop research skills and evaluate material to inform opinions.

To enable children to work geographically in a range of appropriate contexts, using a variety of materials and equipment including other people’s experiences and knowledge.