‘A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.’ (National Curriculum)

At St Andrew’s, we believe that every child is entitled to a curriculum that is creative, captivating and challenging and equips them for today and tomorrow. Our Curriculum Statement (available at https://www.st-andrews.notts.sch.uk/curriculum/) details this intent and outlines our principles and aims which are underpinned by our strong Christian values.

Our children are enthusiastic learners and love to find out more about the world in which they live. We understand the importance that Geography plays in this and in enabling our pupils to become knowledgeable citizens, who care about the future of the world, and aim to deliver a curriculum which develops their geographical knowledge, fieldwork skills and encourages them to ‘push out into the deep’ in both their learning and their personal development.

Our aims are reflected in our Curriculum Statement and our desire to deliver an outstanding and inclusive Geography curriculum to all our pupils:

• To provide a creative, captivating and challenging Geography curriculum.
• To use geographical vocabulary that is accurate and appropriate and progresses and develops from EYFS to Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2.
• To spark pupils’ curiosity and develop their understanding about the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features, how they are linked and how they change over time.
• To enhance learning experiences and deepen their understanding through fieldwork skills including the collection, analysing and communication of data.
• To equip pupils with the knowledge and skills to be able to interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes and aerial photographs.
• To communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
• To have the opportunity to learn in a collaborative environment which fosters investigating and enquiry based learning.
• To develop pupils’ contextual knowledge of location, physical and human characteristics.
• To think critically about human impact on the world and to reflect on the importance of global changes and the connections that exist between people and places,

As a school, we have chosen to deliver our Geography curriculum through a project based approach which will enable our children to develop and improve their key geographical skills, inlcuding map work, and knowledge  as well as providing them with engaging opportunites to learn more about the world around them. We are further enhancing our children’s knowledge with the use of Flashbacks across our curriculum. This combination allows our staff to deliver captivating lessons, while ensuring coverage of the National Curriculum, and enables our pupils to reach their full potential.