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At Clifton Green Primary School, learning in Geography intends to instil a love of the subject in all of our children to inspire curiosity and a fascination about the world and its people. We aim to equip children with an understanding of diverse places, people, resources and environments around them. We place importance upon helping children to become geographers: thinking and acting as geographers do, asking questions, discussing and investigating the topics covered.
Children’s geographical learning starts in EYFS and Key Stage with spaces children are familiar with and slowly builds outwards, from York, to the UK, to Europe, South America and the Arctic and finally global issues in Upper Key Stage Two. In order for the children to know more and remember more in each area of geography studied and to develop links between each topic, we implement a curriculum, inline with the National Curriculum, that is progressive.
We take an enquiry-based approach to teaching Geography with each unit of work focusing upon a key question to guide teaching and learning. Teachers are encouraged to consider opportunities available to use the school grounds and the local area for fieldwork. Children will have the opportunity to collect and analyse data, interpret geographical information (maps, globes, climate data etc.) and to communicate their knowledge in a variety of ways. Children will be encouraged to explore their own environment and teachers challenge pupils to make connections between their local surroundings and that of contrasting settlements, developing their understanding of both human and physical processes.
To find out more about our how our Science curriculum progresses throughout school, please take a look at our overview documents below:
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Supporting learning at home
To help your child to develop their geographical knowledge and skills outside of school, you might like to refer to the following websites:
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