National Curriculum Programmes of Study: Geography KS1 and KS2
At Wincanton Primary School, Geography lessons will engage children and allow children to enthusiastically gain a deep understanding of the world around them. Children are encouraged to develop a greater knowledge and understanding of the world, as well as their place in it and beyond their immediate locality. Our aim is to make children aware of the diversity of places and people around the world locally, nationally and globally, and interest them about both human and physical geographical features. Through their learning at Wincanton Primary School, children are given the opportunity to positively progress and build on their skills and understanding across an exciting and rich curriculum, where their confidence to use a range of geographical resources is established. We encourage our children to be ambitious geographers who want to achieve, with a sense of awe and wonder about their world to enhance their sense of responsibility for care of the earth. This involves using a range of investigative and problem solving skills.
4 main concepts have been mapped out across the year groups to ensure that children build upon their prior knowledge. These concepts can be found below.
The children will have many opportunities to revisit and use their prior knowledge. Quality teaching of Geography throughout the school will ensure good progress. Quality resources which will allow the children to discover the world such as: up to date globes and atlases which accurately reflect the world’s changing borders, choices of books, online videos and any other resources. They will also have frequent opportunities to take part in hands on fieldwork and opportunities to create and test out their own research projects and surveys.
Children will have a deep understanding of what human and physical geography is and be able to consider how these aspects impact daily life. They will secure locational knowledge and will be able to understand their place in the world at a local, national and global level. The children will ask geographically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. Show respect when learning about places which are culturally different to them. Children will construct informed responses that involve using new knowledge and also making connections in what they have learnt prior to this. They should think critically about the impact of physical geography on the human environment and vice versa. They will analyse the links between human actions and the environment and how this has changed over time. Most importantly, children will be able to use their own first hand experiences to draw upon in order to demonstrate their knowledge.
Geography Concepts
Wincanton Primary School has introduced Geography concepts that will link to each lesson. These concepts are:
Locational
To know the names and locations of places.
To understand why things are where they are.
To know significant places around the world such as continents, seas and hemispheres.
Human
To understand the impact humans have on the world we live in.
To understand the purpose of settlements and land use.
To know the important of a settlement.
Physical
To know where the physical features are in the world around us i.e coast, hill, mountain and biomes.
To identify natural processes such as erosion and river basins.
Investigate
To use maps, atlases and globes to identify key physical features
To use a range of data collect activities to identify how our world changes around us.
Develop the skills of observation, mapping, data tables and graphs.
Each lesson will link to a concept, that the children will identify and then show on the classroom Geography display.
Progression of skills in Geography
Curriculum overviews are on individual class pages.