Intent statement:
The national curriculum states, “A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes."
At Chalk Ridge, we want our children to be confident within their learning and inquisitive about the world around them. We will help to answer their questions by learning about different places around the world. This will be done through interpreting a range of sources including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). They will then communicate their geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills. We will see their progression throughout their time at Chalk Ridge because they will know more, remember more and are able to do more.
Implementation Statement:
In the Foundation Stage, children are taught geography through the key area of learning set out within the EYFS Statutory Framework. Through a broad range of teacher-led, child-initiated and continuous learning opportunities, children will be taught to:
In KS1 and KS2, children continue to build on their geography knowledge with more formal weekly geography lessons. Geography units can last between 6 and 12 weeks and are taught in blocks which alternate with history.
The substantive knowledge is divided into the following units:
Impact statement:
Pupils enjoy, and are successful in, learning across the seven geographical substantive knowledge blocks: place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change. This is interwind with applying their disciplinary knowledge through the enquiry process.
We measure impact through:
Observation of teaching and learning will show:
Examples of Geography at Chalk Ridge