Geography Subject Information

At Birchington Primary School we are geographers! Geography is a subject that is packed with excitement and wonder, and we want our children to love Geography. We want them to have no limits to what their ambitions are, and grow up wanting to be volcanologists, cartographers, town planners, conservationists or weather forecasters. Bringing Geography alive is important at Birchington Primary School. We want our children to remember their Geography lessons in our school, and for the learning they have gained here to form a firm foundation that will allow them to embrace the geographic opportunities they are presented with later in life. We want to provide children with learning and experiences that are relevant to their own lives, and instil the idea that individually and together, they can make a difference to the future of our planet.

Subject Overview

At Birchington CE Primary School, Geography is taught by class teachers all the way from EYFS to Year 6. From Years 1-6, an exciting Geography topic is taught at least every other term to ensure the subject is revisited regularly and that our children are continually inspired on their journey to becoming keen geographers. Our Geography curriculum has been designed alongside the ‘Oddizzi’ scheme to support teaching and learning with high quality planning and resources. Teachers plan a series of ambitious and engaging lessons to ensure the coverage of the National Curriculum and look to include the children in active and first-hand experiences wherever possible.

Rationale

At Birchington Primary CE School, we believe that Geography motivates and inspires us all, staff and children to find out about the amazing world that surrounds us, past and present. This assists to develop the children’s curiosity in both their immediate surroundings, places and environments in the wider world, whilst supporting their developing skills to interpret Geography to further their knowledge and understanding. The curriculum is designed to develop knowledge and skills that are progressive as well as transferrable, allowing the children to build upon their growing knowledge of the world to aid them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes. We hope that this enables the children to develop into keen geographers whereby knowledge and understanding becomes deeply rooted in their long-term memory, that they understand their place in the world, becoming global citizens and knowing their roles and responsibilities to their immediate and wider environment.