Geography

Subject Leadership

Subject Leader: Mrs Laura Bradley and Miss Hayley Easton (ECT Shadowing)

Intent

This school aims to provide its pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum set within a caring and supportive Christian community in which each member of the school is valued and respected.

Geography is essentially about understanding the world we live in. It helps to provoke and provide answers to questions about the natural and human aspects of the world. At St Paul’s children are encouraged to develop a greater understanding and knowledge of the world, as well as their place in it. The Geography curriculum enables children to develop knowledge and skills that are transferrable to other curriculum areas. Geography is an investigative subject, which develops an understanding of concepts, knowledge and skills. At St Paul’s our intent, when teaching Geography, is to inspire in children a curiosity and fascination about the world and people within it; to promote the children’s interest and understanding of diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.

Geography gives the opportunity to inspire children’s curiosity and create fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Geography equips children with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide children with the frameworks and approaches that explain how the Earth’s features at different scales, shaped, interconnected and changed over time.

Geography should enable children to:
→ Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine –

including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for

understanding the actions of processes.

→ Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how
these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time.

→ Collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that
deepen their understanding of geographical processes.

→ Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial
photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

→ Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and
quantitative skills and writing at length.