Geography
Our geography curriculum aims to inspire pupils to become curious and explorative thinkers with a diverse knowledge of the world; in other words, to think like a geographer. We want pupils to develop the confidence to question and observe places, measure and record necessary data in various ways, and analyse and present their findings. We aim to build an awareness of how geography shapes our lives at multiple scales and over time. We hope to encourage pupils to become resourceful, active citizens who will have the skills to contribute to and improve the world around them.
Intent
Kenilworth's geography intent is to inspire a lifelong fascination with the world, developing geographical knowledge, vocabulary and skills and promoting critical thinking about environmental issues. Geography is about understanding our place in the world, where we fit in and understanding various places around us. At Kenilworth, we seek to equip our students with the tools to explore and investigate. We encourage students to be inquisitive and ask questions about both natural and human features of the world. We aim to create a life-long love of the subject through providing our children with a sense of wonder about the world they live in. We hope to encourage pupils to become resourceful, active citizens who have the skills to contribute to and improve the world around them.
Implementation
Our geography curriculum is underpinned by the aims of the National Curriculum and benefits from a spiral curriculum to ensure knowledge and skills are revisited. At Kenilworth, we want the children to behave as geographers and use skills that they would use. The National Curriculum organises the geography attainment targets under four subheadings and strands:
- Location knowledge
- Place knowledge
- Human and physical geography
- Geographical skills and fieldwork
Kapow's Primary Geography scheme ensures that there is a clear progression of skills and knowledge within these four strands across each year group. The Kapow scheme is a spiral curriculum, with essential knowledge and skills revisited with increasing complexity, allowing pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Cross-curricular links are included throughout each unit, allowing children to make connections and apply their geography skills to other areas of learning. This will allow children to understand how important geographical learning is in all areas of their learning.
Impact
Within geography lessons, each unit has a unit quiz and knowledge catcher, which can be used at the start or end of the unit to assess children's understand. Opportunities for children to present their findings using their geographical skills will also form part of the assessment process in each unit.
Pupils will leave school equipped with a range of skills and knowledge to enable them to study geography with confidence at Key Stage 3. We hope to shape children into curious and inspired geographers with respect and appreciation for the world around them alongside an understanding of the interconnection between the human and the physical.
Kenilworth also uses a variety of other assessment tools to check children's short-term and long-term understanding. Within geography lessons, teachers use exit cards to ensure that children have a firm understanding before leaving lessons, they use quizzes at the end of a topic which focus on recent learning as well as learning in previous units/year groups to assess whether learning has been 'sticky' and they use various other tools to check students' understanding.