It is our intent to grow the potential in all children to secure new knowledge and achieve. We will learn what it means to be a ‘Geographer’.

Geography enables pupils to learn about many aspects of the contemporary world at different scales (local to global). The past world provides context for the present world and then geographers predict on to the future. Geographical skills are the methods Geographers use to find out about the world: asking questions, finding data, analysing data and communicating findings.  By following our Geography curriculum, the children will master each component of knowledge and skill preparing them to access later and more complex knowledge and skill. The knowledge builds tightly woven schemata in their long term memories. What pupils learn at each of the sequenced steps alters what they subsequently access.

Knowledge is structured as a narrative over time. Pupils will make sense of the later learning content through the work that the earlier content did on their memories, expectations and understanding. The sequencing means that pupils are prepared for the richness and complexity of what they are learning now , by the securing and richness of knowledge that they have already learned.

Substantive themes are understood through real features, processes and events that are located at real places. We will explore our geography learning through three disciplinary concepts: change, diversity and interaction.