Geography
Intent
We have a carefully planned curriculum in Geography at King’s Oak Primary, which covers the full breadth of the National Curriculum. Learning is progressive and links are made to support children knowing and remembering more: this helps to prepare them for the next stage of their learning and education.
Our geography curriculum is planned to inspire our children to take an interest, develop respect and have an understanding of the world around them on the local, national and global scale. Our geography curriculum teaches our children about the geographical processes that have shaped the world in which we live. Children will acquire and make use of a range of skills to enable them to become reflective, independent and resilient learners, striving for excellence in their geographical abilities.
Through our geography curriculum, we strive for the children to understand their role in appreciating the diversity in people, places and cultures and to understand the role that humans play in shaping the decisions which impact our world now and in the future. This is so our children can make positive contributions which help to look after the world around them. Links across learning are made explicit for the children so that they can appreciate the similarities and differences between places in our world helping them to have high values of citizenship.
Our geography curriculum will develop children’s sense of locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography, map reading skills and fieldwork through a well-planned, structured and progressive curriculum from Nursery through to Year 6.
As a result of this, children will
- Increase and develop their geographical skills, concepts, knowledge and attitudes.
- Increase their understanding of key physical and human geographical processes and how this leads to variations in places and change over time.
- Develop and use their skills in enquiry, analysis, evaluation, and debate.
- Develop their interest in the world around them, arousing their curiosity and motivation to learn.
