Geography

At Cookridge Holy Trinity Primary School, as an inclusive school, we aim to give all children a high quality geography education which inspires a curiosity and fasciation about the world around them. “Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.”

(National Curriculum in England, Geography programme of study, 2013)

Aims

As a school our goal is to cover the following National Curriculum aims in an engaging and meaningful way for every child:

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.

(National Curriculum in England, Geography programme of study, 2013)