Geography
Geography Programme of Study
At St. Willibrord’s, we believe that our Geography curriculum should enable our pupils to leave our school armed with the knowledge that will enable them to enter the wider world as global citizens. This will be achieved by allowing our pupils to gain this knowledge through a variety of methods such as researching and creating, in addition to observing, collecting and analysing data.
Our pupils will undertake a local area study in each year group to allow them to have the cultural capital to appreciate their community and the wider world around them. This will allow our pupils to have a solid foundation in their understanding of the world around them.
Our Geography curriculum enables pupils to:
- 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
Our Geography curriculum will ensure that our pupils 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.
Our Curriculum Overview for each year group
Our Progression Document for each year group