Geography - Curriculum Intent
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At Tickford Park, we provide all children with equal opportunities to be emerged in the subject of Geography by enabling repetition and practise within their learning of the subject each year. As a result, they begin each school year with a deeper understanding than they had before in each of the key areas of Geography taught, through practising their skills and building upon their previous knowledge.
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The children’s curiosity for this subject is ignited in Foundation through the continuous provision of The World as part of the Early Learning Goals, with their enabling environments such as role play and small world equipment purposefully set up to expose them to similarities and differences in relation to places. They are exposed to stories and language that enables them to make sense of the geographical features of the world around them. During their annual trip to post Christmas letters in the local area they explore the local man-made and natural environment and are encouraged to express their opinions of the school’s surroundings. Children are also given opportunities throughout the year to plant and maintain flowerbeds in their outdoor area to understand how they can care for their natural environment.
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Children continue to progress in their learning of Geography in four key areas throughout Key Stages 1 and 2: Locational knowledge, Place knowledge, Human and Physical Geography and Geography skills and field work (map skills). In each year group the four key areas are covered using new and exciting topics that build upon what the children already know with more depth and layers, and their skills are further developed each year based upon the progress they previously made so that they attain quality learning they can access at their own pace and ability so that it stays with them for life.
We offer our children a range of visits, and visitors, that complement the learning that each year group is exploring throughout their school year, in order to provide them with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and understanding to real life contexts. These include a trip to Campbell Park in Year 1 to compare natural and physical features in the environment, a local river walk during the Year 4 topic ‘Climate, Rivers and mountains’ and a visit to a local Recycling Centre as part of the pollution topic in Year 5. Each year in Key Stage 2, we also organise exciting and varied residential visits that provide a fantastic opportunity for relationship building as well as creating a natural curiosity about the subject of Geography. |
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At Tickford Park we want children to leave us being mindful and responsible members of society who are aware of the environmental impacts currently taking place in their world, whether these be human or physical, and locally or further afield. We also want to give them the skills and understanding to know that they are able to be part of the solution in solving future problems, sustaining and protecting their planet for themselves and for generations to come. At Tickford Park children can volunteer themselves as Eco Warriors each academic year, giving children from Year 1 to Year 6 roles that prepare them to be responsible individuals for the future as they plan ways to inform their peers to become more environmentally friendly. This title gives the elected children a platform to grow their passions for Geography as well as develop their own confidence and communication skills in their every day lives.
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