Geography

Geography at Nether Kellet is taught through a skills and knowledge-based curriculum, involving the study of a range of different environments and topics, giving children the opportunity to explore their locality and beyond. Through Geography, we encourage and challenge children to view the world from new perspectives and ask questions around key social and environmental issues we face as a society today. Our Geography topics link closely with our whole school themes, for example during ‘The Great International Bake Off’, we consider where our food comes from and how land is used to achieve this, and in ‘Global Citizens’ we study a range of regions and countries of the world.

At Nether Kellet, inspiring teaching ensures that children learn about:
• The diverse nature of places, people and environments on Earth and how they vary spatially and temporally.
• Key physical and human processes, interactions between such processes and how they have impacted on landscapes and environments.
• A range of key geographical skills, which allow them to collect, interpret and communicate data collected through fieldwork.

We teach Geography through engaging and thought-provoking lessons, which consistently build upon, and are tailored, to the prior knowledge and skills of the children and learning in previous year groups. We give children unique learning experiences and memorable opportunities to explore the world around them, through educational trips and visitors to school.

In addition to our core Geography curriculum, we also do daily Global Awareness sessions as a Global Learning Programme school. Our main aims of Global are:

• To give the children a good awareness of the world around them including: locations and names of places, continents, oceans and seas, climate zones, types of landscape, cultures, languages, histories, environmental and political issues, etc.
• To challenge stereotypes and pre-conceptions.
• To develop children’s analytical and deductive thinking based on what they already know and understand.
• To open children’s minds to the world around them and similarities and differences compare to their own environment and culture.
• To develop children’s understanding of their rights and responsibilities as citizens of both Britain and the world as a whole.
• To place into context news stories and learning in other curriculum areas and draw their attention to connections and links. Global awareness also provides a backdrop to our studies of history and geography in other parts of the world.
• To develop the children’s writing in constructing sentences and paragraphs linked with their Global Learning.

SEND: For children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, we ensure that all teaching and learning is inclusive and that children are supported wherever necessary with resources, teaching assistant or teacher support and additional input if required. We are also aware that some children excel in this subject but may find the recording and “English” skills more difficult so we provide support accordingly to ensure that all children achieve their potential.

Please see in the Theme section the overviews for each term.

We use our knowledge progression in planning detailing key learning for each term within each phase (we assess against end points based on this key learning in each subject):

Please see bottom of page for our Progression of Knowledge and Skills documents which also contribute to planning and awareness of prior and next learning.

We assess against the end points at the end of each term and using continual assessment to inform next steps in teaching.