Geography

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) articles supported by our Geography curriculum:

Subject Leader: Miss Weaver

“Geography nurtures curiosity and wonder about the world.”

– Alaric Maude, 2010

Purpose for Study:

We aim for our Geography Curriculum to give our children the opportunity to learn skills required to become a geographer.

Our Geography Curriculum allows children to:

• Be given tools to develop their own cultural awareness.

• Understand and put forward ways to support their environment.

• Recognise the importance of sustainable development.

• Think about their own place in the world, including their values, rights and responsibilities to other people in the environment.

• Develop their curiosity and fascination about the world and its people.

• Investigate a range of places - both in Britain and abroad.

• Develop their knowledge and understanding of the earth's physical and human processes.

• Investigate and make enquiries about their local area of Levenshulme and Manchester so they can develop a sense of who they are, their heritage and what makes our local area unique and special.

• Develop their ability to apply geographical skills to communicate their findings.

• Develop a strong knowledge of where places are and what they are like, both in Britain and the wider world.

• Gain a strong base of geographical knowledge and vocabulary explored through a range of sources of information.

• Develop fieldwork skills.

• Undertake geographical enquiry and investigate and express their views about people, places and environments.

Aims:

The National Curriculum for Geography aims to ensure that all pupils:

• Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes

• Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time

• Are competent in the geographical skills needed to:

– Collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes

– Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

– Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.