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Geography

Our Intent

At Musbury Primary School, our intent is firmly aligned to the aims of the national curriculum for geography.  

 

The national curriculum for geography aims to ensure that all pupils: 

  • 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
  • are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
    • 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.

Our Implementation

Geography is taught every term and is planned as a rolling programme. For Class 1 we have a 2-year plan and for Class 2 we have a 4-year plan. Our curriculum overviews identify when each area of the geography national curriculum is taught. Leaders have made decisions about what unit of knowledge is taught when and our progression document highlights the small steps in skills for each year group. Each unit places an emphasis on locality, to ensure children are deepen their knowledge of the world. 

Where possible, we enrich the children's learning with trips and visits, or we invite visitors into school, so that the children can try to gain a sense of the wider world. We have recently been on a boat trip to look at the features of the land from the point of view of the sea. We have also spent time mapping out our local area and identifying human and physical features that we have right on our doorstep.

The Impact

Children’s geographical understanding of the knowledge and skills covered in a unit of work is gauged through children’s ongoing work, the quality of their answers to 1:1 and whole class questions and through assessment tasks.

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