Curriculum
Geography
Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact
Intent
Geography at Wrekin View is designed to broaden the knowledge and enlighten the curiosity within children of the ever-changing world in which we live.
The curriculum will equip our children with knowledge about diverse places, people, natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
We aim to widen the children’s horizons of the world, beginning with them and their immediate locality before branching out and learning about the national and international world.
Our exciting Geography curriculum is designed to ensure that our children have an appreciation of the world and their place in it, whilst deepening their understanding of how their own actions will have an impact on other people and the world around them.
Implementation
At Wrekin View, we have a progressive and curiosity-filled curriculum that is built upon national curriculum aims and is designed to build upon prior knowledge and skills year on year. Our geography curriculum is taught through our termly topics, which we aim to ensure children are able to apply prior knowledge and skills to current learning.
The geography curriculum will be taught with an aim to be challenging, inspiring, creative, nurturing and encourage active learning to ensure all children are successful. The learner will revisit geographical skills and knowledge in order to embed and deepen understanding. The lessons are carefully planned, with clear differentiation, to ensure that all children are well supported in their learning journey and there are opportunities for deeper learning.
To supplement learning, trips and visiting experts are used to enhance the learning experiences for the children. Starting with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) the children will be introduced to their school environment and as they progress through the school, they will gain a broadened understanding of the wider world.
To compliment our studies on the local environment, we have set up an Eco Warrior committee full of strong communicators who are determined to make changes within our school. The team are responsible for: making our school litter free, sharing the benefits of buying locally and growing our own produce and that we are reducing our energy consumption, e.g., turning off light and switches.
Impact
Our Geography Curriculum is planned to offer our pupils high quality and well planned out lessons which clearly show progression to ensure each child is successful. Through Geographical Questioning during lessons allows pupils to gain coherent knowledge and understanding of their local area and the world around them. Also, children are exposed to a wide range of Geographical Vocabulary to broaden their understanding and knowledge further. By offering a wide range of terminology we are able to apply this new knowledge to help assist in answering our end of term “key question”; as teachers this helps us to identify areas in which we need to encourage deeper learning. Continuity and progression in the curriculum is built around essential knowledge, understanding and key skills within Geography.
Through our curriculum, pupils learn to think critically and ask perceptive questions. In order to ensure our aims have been met, we scrutinise topics through:
- Interviewing the pupils about their learning (pupil voice).
- Moderation where pupil’s books are scrutinised and there is the opportunity for a dialogue between teachers to understand their class’s work.
- Sharing good practice in staff meetings.
- Marking of written work in books against the schools marking policy.
- Teachers to input data into learning passports.
