Geography

Subject Leader - Mrs Syms

INTENT

Through our geography curriculum, we want our pupils to have a sense of their place in the world and an awareness and understanding of the people, places and processes globally. We want our pupils to leave our school with a passion for the future of our planet and its people. 

Using the children’s own locality as a starting point, we aim to equip our pupils with the geographical skills and knowledge they need to be able to study, compare and scrutinise a wide range of geographical locations, processes and issues.

Our virtues led curriculum encourages our pupils to work together and to understand the impact that humans have on both the natural and human world. 

St Joseph’s recognises and embraces the different perspectives that our pupils bring to the subject and our careful planning ensures that all pupils, regardless of ability, including those pupils with special education needs or disabilities, or background are able to access the subject.

IMPLEMENTATION:

• Geography at St Joseph’s provides challenging and enjoyable learning through a range of local and global studies.
• The long term plan and progression of skills documents carefully maps out which geography units are to be taught throughout the year, ensuring the National Curriculum requirements are fully met.
• Geography is taught in three half-termly units over the year. 
• There are opportunities for children to partake in fieldwork both within and beyond the school grounds. Geography topics are carefully planned to enable children of all abilities, including children with SEN, to make the best use of their learning.
• Where possible and pertinent, geography units are linked to other areas in the curriculum such as art and design, English and  mathematics.

Year One have been using the local area for their geography work. The children used Digimaps to map and track their walk into Bingley town centre. 

Digimaps for schools link here.

Greater Depth:

Impact:

Geography around the school....