At Abbey, we nurture a love of learning. We open windows of opportunity by creating memorable moments. Learning with meaningful relationships supports our children to become valued members of the community. We embed the core subjects within an expansive and challenging curriculum. We develop and nurture young minds, creating memorable moments and events. We promote and celebrate equality and diversity.

Intent

Our children will learn to think and act like responsible geographers with a clear understanding of their place in our world. We do this by equipping our children to organise and connect information and ideas about diverse people, places, and environments. Our carefully designed and sequential curriculum will inspire our children’s curiosity and fascination about our world and the people in it. Geography is an investigative subject; our curriculum encourages children to discover answers to questions through exploration and research. They will understand, describe and appreciate the world whilst also being able to discuss and debate issues on a local, national and global scale. We encourage our students to take an active interest in global change and become responsible global citizens.

Implementation

Our geography curriculum is designed so that our children start with themselves and their local school and local areas before broadening out to wider places in the UK and across the world. We follow the Oxford Owl scheme. Each strand of geography; locational and place, environmental, human and physical, and geographical and fieldwork, is covered throughout the curriculum. Each lesson includes a learning journey, retrieval practice, SEEC and an opportunity for independent practice. Children use a range of different resources e.g. maps, globes, photographs, graphs and diagrams, and where possible, we utilise opportunities for fieldwork to take place to immerse our children in their learning, as we believe hands-on experience contextualises their learning and creates memorable moments.

Impact

Our children will leave in Year 6 with an understanding of their own identity, sense of place and have developed an appreciation of the interconnectedness of the world they live in. Our children will leave with the skills needed to explore, navigate and understand the world around them and the knowledge and understanding to enthusiastically continue their geography learning journey. We hope the children move forward with a feeling of responsibility and commitment to become active global citizens.