Geography at Southey Green Primary School

Intent  

Geography at Southey Green is ever changing in order to keep up with world changes. As we know, a child’s understanding of their environment shapes how they interact with the world around them and therefore, we focus on developing and delivering a first class Geographical Curriculum, tailored to the needs of our learners. At Southey Green, we believe that Geography helps to provoke and provide answers to questions about the natural and human aspects of the world. Children are encouraged to develop a greater understanding and knowledge of the world, as well as their place in it. The geography curriculum at Southey Green helps children to develop their knowledge and skills that are transferable to other curriculum areas. We seek to inspire children’s curiosity of our fascinating world; promote our children’s interest and understanding of diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments. Our curriculum is designed to develop knowledge and skills that are progressive, as well as transferable, throughout their time at Southey Green Primary and also to their further education and beyond. Throughout our robust Geography curriculum, we have adapted it to teach children about the area we are fortunate enough to live in for example: 

Year 1 – Where We Live

Year 2 - Sheffield

Year 3 – Our United Kingdom

Year 4 – Settlements

Year 5 – Fantastic Fieldwork

Year 6 – Climate Change

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  

• 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 a range geographical skills including: collecting, analysing and communicating a range of data through fieldwork, interpret a range of sources geographical sources and communicating their geographical information in a variety of ways. 

• Become confident in demonstrating, discussing, analysing, communicating and interpreting a range of geographical skills. 

• Be exposed to and have opportunity of different fieldwork experiences through educational visits and visitors. 

• Develop their geographical vocabulary to support children’s geographical learning. 

• Learn about our fascinating and diverse world around us. 

As stated in our curriculum policy, we aim for all of our children to  

• Literate 

• Numerate 

• Being able to articulate ideas, understanding and opinions in a confident manner at all levels using rich vocabulary 

• With raised aspirations with children ready to take on new challenges 

• Have experiences that provoke curiosity and deepen understanding 

• Become responsible and respectful members of our society  

• Have strong cultural capital 

There are many ways in which we strive to achieve this in geography and below are just a few examples: