Geography
Our vision: ‘Embracing diversity; building a brighter future together.’
‘Learning at Boothferry inspires us to discover, explore and use our knowledge, skills and understanding to develop ourselves as citizens of tomorrow.’
Curriculum Intent
We offer a structure and sequence of lessons to help teachers ensure they have covered the skills required to meet the aims of the national curriculum. The content allows for a broader, deeper understanding of the four areas of geography identified in the curriculum. It will develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places and understanding the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, along with how they bring about variation and change over time. We intend to develop children’s curiosity and fascination of the world and it people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. The IPC units offer a range of opportunities for investigating places around the world as well as physical and human processes.
Curriculum Implementation
In order for children to know more and remember more in each area of geography studied, there is a structure to the lesson sequence where by prior learning is always considered and opportunities for revision of facts and historical understanding are built into lesson. Revision should become part of good practice and ultimately help to build a depth to their historical understanding. Through revisiting and consolidating skills, our lessons and resources and display material help children build on prior knowledge alongside introducing new skills and challenge.
Curriculum Impact
We believe that the impact of our curriculum is that geography learning is loved by teachers and pupils across the school, teacher have higher expectations and more quality evidence can be presented in books. All children will use geographical vocabulary accurately and understand the different strands of geography, with a deep understand of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. Children will begin to make relevant links from geography to other curriculum subjects, such as history and science. They will improve their enquiry skills and inquisitiveness about the world around them, and their impact on the world. All children will realise that they have choices to make in the world, developing a positive commitment to the environment and the future of the planet. Children will become competent in collecting, analysing and communicating a range of data gathered. They will be able to interpret and range of sources of geographical information and they will communicate geographical information in a variety of ways. All children in the school will be able to speak confidently about their geography learning. Skills and knowledge. Impact can also be measured through key questioning skills built into lessons and formative assessment rubrics (aimed at targeting next steps in learning) which will lead to end of year summative assessments and end of year subject reviews that will inform the following year’s action plan.
This year Boothferry celebrated Euro 2020 by holding a ‘Wear Your Own Colours (Euro 2020) Day’ which was a great opportunity to celebrate the diversity of our school.
On this day children came to school dressed in coloured clothing to represent the colours of their home country.
Throughout the day children completed some important geographical work based on their home country. To develop our understanding of geographical similarities and differences of human and physical features, we created fact files and compared England to many different countries around the world.
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As a school we aim to promote the diversity of our school, develop the children’s international mindedness as well as developing their geographical/locational knowledge.
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