Geography

Geography
at St Anne’s Primary School

Intent: Why does our Geography curriculum look like this?

Our Geography curriculum is designed to develop children’s curiosity and fascination about the world and the people who live in it.  We intend for our children to develop key knowledge and skills as they complete their progressive learning journey through school.  Our teaching will equip children with a diverse knowledge of cultures, communities, resources, natural environments and human environments.  Children will investigate a range of places – both in Britain and abroad – to help develop their knowledge and understanding of our world.

We are committed to providing children with opportunities to investigate and make enquiries about our local area of The Wirral & Liverpool, so that they can develop of real sense of who they are, their heritage and what makes our local area unique and special.

We also develop the children’s ability to apply geographical skills to enable them to communicate their findings and geographical understanding.

Implementation: How will we achieve this?

Our children follow a Geography curriculum which uses objectives from ‘Plan Bee’, to ensure children know more, remember more and can do more as they progress through our school.  Our Geography Curriculum demonstrates progression in four key areas.

• Geographical Skills and Fieldwork

• Place Knowledge

• Human and Physical Geography

• Location Knowledge

Our Teaching Approach

Geography is taught using the Plan Bee scheme to ensure progression and coverage across the school and within each year group.  Children study geography each term for half a term (alternated with history) with one session each week.  The teaching progresses each week, building on from the previous session, also enhancing the learning and skills gained from previous years teaching. Each session begins with a recap of knowledge/skills acquired from earlier sessions to consolidate learning, ensuring that it sticks.  Medium-term planning supports teaching, ensures continuity between classes and carefully plans for progression and depth.

Our children understand the core skills needed to work as a geographer

Impact: How will we know that our children are achieving?

By the end of each key stage, children are expected to know, apply and understand the skills and techniques specified in the Geography curriculum plan.

Children are assessed through ‘balance’ each lesson using a number rating from 1-9 to demonstrate the level of understanding or skills achieved for that objective.  At the end of the half term the teacher will provide an overall level for each pupil on balance using their professional judgement.  This will take into account all the skills, learning and knowledge acquired during this topic. Children will be assessed as either working towards, expected or greater depth, in accordance with Age Related Expectations.