Shenton Primary School

Geography

At Shenton Primary School, our Geography curriculum helps children explore the world around them, from their local community to faraway countries. Through engaging activities, maps, and fieldwork, pupils develop an understanding of places, environments, and the people who live there. They learn key skills such as observing, comparing, and interpreting information about landscapes, weather, and cultures. Our aim is to inspire curiosity, a sense of responsibility for the planet, and an appreciation of the diversity of our world.

Curriculum Intent:

At Shenton Primary School, we teach themed geography units that are planned using a progressive knowledge and skills based curriculum that culminates in the end of key stage national curriculum outcomes.

Children will have the opportunity to study locations from across the world to nurture a love of geography and develop an awareness of human and physical features throughout the world. Within the EYFS curriculum a focus is placed upon the children’s immediate locality, including the school and a local area walk, whilst also exposing them to wider aspects of the world through the sharing of stories from other cultures and the world map. In each year group, children will also develop an understanding of a wide breath of vocabulary linking to their units of work. Through blocked units of learning our children are fully immersed in the geography curriculum. The carefully planned sequence of learning for geography allows children to develop LOCATION KNOWLEDGE, FIELDWORK SKILLS, understand HUMAN AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY and develop PLACE KNOWLEDGE in every year group progressively across the school. Children will consolidate map reading skills through deliberate practice in every year group.

Curriculum Implementation:

Geography is taught through links to themed curriculum learning (Disasters and destruction, settlements and land use, Migration and trade, Environment, sustainability and climate change and Famous landmarks). It is taught through blocked learning to allow the children to immerse themselves in really ‘being a geographer’. This blocked learning allows children to really understand the sequence REVIEW, TEACH, PRACTICE and APPLY their work as a geographer, allowing time to enjoy the subject area. The key areas of geography are covered throughout the school; location knowledge, fieldwork and map reading skills, human and physical geography and developing place knowledge.

Geography Policy

Key Knowledge Maps

Progression Grids

Geography Games

BBC Bitesize has a number of fun, free online games that children can play to help make learning geography easier and more enjoyable.

Fun online geography games for primary and secondary learners. - BBC Bitesize