Intent: 

The intention of the Geography curriculum is to provide opportunities for children to gain a confident understanding of where places are as well as the interdependence that can exist between places. They will gain a strong understanding of the human and physical world and have an appreciation of economic, environmental, political and social geographies; creating well rounded individuals ready for a modern world. 

Our main aims are to:

• Live: Ensure pupils develop observation and analytical skills and personal qualities for lifelong learning so that they can make an active contribution to society

• Love: Broaden pupils’ horizons by giving them opportunities to explore the wider world through study of places as well as educational visits

• Learn: Develop independent, confident and successful learners who achieve the best possible academic standards, whatever their starting point.

There are several  concepts for geography threaded throughout pupils’ four year journey at Edward Peake. These are: space, place, earth systems, environment, sustainability, scale, time, diversity, interconnections and interpretations.

These concepts allow pupils to deepen their understanding of geography across a wide variety of topics.

Implementation: 

Pupils are encouraged to broaden and deepen knowledge whilst showing a positive attitude to learning. Pupils in year 5 and year 6 are taught by their class teacher under the guidance of the subject leader. Pupils in year 7 and year 8 are taught by a subject specialist. All pupils have an hour of geography every week.

In geography we use the Edward Peake lesson structure to ensure that all pupils are able to engage fully in their learning.

Each year has an overarching theme which each topic feeds into. Every lesson has a key question for pupils to explore and deepen their geographical knowledge.