The teaching of Geography is based on the aims and purposes outlined in the National Curriculum and has fidelity to the academic discipline of geographical learning.

Our curriculum is guided by the following academic fingerprint:

Children will:

• Have secure contextual knowledge of local, national and globally significant places and be able to identify and locate a range of continents, countries and important cities.
• Have a secure understanding of a range of human and physical geographical characteristics and how these change over time.
• Be competent in the geographical skills needed to: collect, analyse and communicate a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork.
• Have secure knowledge of reading, understanding and creating/drawing maps. They will gain experience of using atlases, globes and aerial photographs.
• Have competent skills to communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

We have carefully designed a knowledge rich curriculum alongside a clear progression of skills. Wherever possible, the knowledge has been linked to other areas of the curriculum, with history being at the core of this, in order to deepen and connect children’s learning opportunities. The knowledge and skills build incrementally so that by the end of Key Stage 2 children know, understand and apply the subject content specified in the Programme of Study for geography and are fully prepared for the next stage of their learning.

In line with our whole school focus on retention of knowledge and skills,  the core vocabulary has been identified for each unit of teaching.