Subject Leader within the school is: Miss. Rose
At Kingsfield, we follow the Primary Knowledge Curriculum for geography which has been designed to be knowledge-rich. This means the knowledge children will gain has been carefully specified, ordered coherently and builds over time. As children work through our geography curriculum, they will know more and understand more about the world around them. Good geographical understanding relies on firm foundations of knowledge and skills. The skills our curriculum develops, like the knowledge, are specified, ordered coherently and progress over time. This curriculum structure helps children to deepen their understanding of physical and human geographical processes, fostering curiosity and fascination for the world we live in.
As children work through the curriculum they will know more and understand more about their local area, the UK, Europe and the World. This rigorous approach develops geographical knowledge and understanding in a way that builds on children’s prior knowledge, allowing them to make meaningful connections and gain an understanding of how our world is connected. Children will learn about key geographical concepts such as place, space, the environment and interconnection and will become skilled at answering questions such as; What is it like to live in this place? What are the challenges of this environment? How have people changed this landscape over time? Children will gain an understanding of what geographers do, what they look for and what they may say about a place.
Each year our geography curriculum begins with a ‘Spatial Sense’ unit that explicitly teaches geographical skills such as locating places on a map, positioning items on a map, using symbols in a key, interpreting scale, reading climate graphs, identifying locations using co-ordinates, interpreting population data, identifying elevation on relief maps and more. The spatial sense units for each year group are positioned at the beginning of the year to explicitly teach skills which will then be used in context throughout the rest of the year as children apply those skills to learn more about people, places and the environment.
To see more detail about our geography curriculum, please click on the link below: