Intent
At Larkrise Primary School, we Inspire our children through the Geography Curriculum, which we have developed based on the Geography National Curriculum and Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage, where the foundational aspects of geographical knowledge and skills are evident in ‘Understanding the World’.
Inspire Knowledge and Skills: Our geography curriculum is designed to balance acquiring broad and deep knowledge alongside opportunities to apply skills in various contexts. Beyond teaching geography discretely, we give children the opportunity to apply and develop what they have learnt across wider learning within the Inspire Curriculum by using geographical enquiry to support our enquiry-led learning and Big Questions.
Inspire Creativity & Adventure: Geography at Larkrise inspires children to make sense of their immediate physical environment and their community, supporting their understanding of our culturally, socially, technologically and ecologically diverse world. Children use globes, atlases, maps and aerial photographs to investigate both their local area and the wider world and use their understanding of the physical geography of the earth to discover what those places are like. Children also create their own maps of both real and imagined places and use them to explore. We give children the opportunity to explore and navigate their local area and beyond, including visiting geographically significant places particular to Oxford, such as the rivers, castles and colleges.
Inspire Kindness: While learning about the Earth, children at Larkrise learn about the importance of conserving all that is special and unique about its environment. We support children to understand the current issues facing the planet, as well as empowering them to see the difference that their actions and voices can have in making change.
Implementation
Specifics of what is taught in each year group can be found in the Geography Progression Grids and each year group’s Long Term Plans and further detail is evident in our Knowledge - Skills - Vocabulary organisers. Each year the children will have the opportunity to explore the following themes of the Geography Curriculum.
Each of these themes is revisited regularly (at least once in each year group) and pupils revisit each theme through a new enquiry that consolidates and builds on prior learning within that theme.
Like all areas of our Inspire Curriculum, we have used research evidence to develop our teaching and learning pedagogy. For more information, please see our Inclusive Quality First Teaching Key Principles.
Impact
By the time children in Year 6 leave us, they will have had opportunities to:
Inspire Knowledge and Skills:
Inspire Creativity & Adventure:
Inspire Kindness:
More information on the impact of the Curriculum can be seen in our ‘Larkrise Look’.