GEOGRAPHY - Curriculum Intent

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.
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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 Newport Pagnell Town to look at physical and human features, 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.