Geography

Intent

At St. Joseph’s we aim to provide children with a high quality and broad Geography curriculum,  helping children to study and gain knowledge of places and the relationship between people and their environments, as well as to deepen their awareness of our local area.

Our curriculum aims to have nurtured the values of the Catholic School Pupil Profile and the principles of Catholic Social Teaching  within all children by the time they complete Key Stage 2, through a researched based, knowledge based, sequenced curriculum.

Our curriculum allows children to eloquently ask questions about the past through the use of a range of historical sources.

Units of work are carefully sequenced to ensure that they build upon each other to reinforce and extend previous learning. The Geography curriculum has been carefully cross referenced to previous and future learning to enable children to know more and remember more.

We use a published scheme, supplemented by other resources, to deliver our Geography curriculum and this meets the demands of the National Curriculum.

Curriculum Overview

• Geography Progression in Knowledge
• SEND Provision in Geography

What our Children Say…

“You get to learn about different places around the world, which links to Fratelli Tutti and knowing more about our brothers and sisters.” – Year 5 child

“I loved my topic on the Rainforest as I’d love to go there.” – Year 3 child

“I love maps and discovering new places.” – Year 4 child

Deepening Opportunities

There are trips to give children the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of Geography eg. Going to visit the seaside, residentials and links to PE, Maths and Orienteering etc.