Geography

Success In Geography

At St Mary's, we aim for our Geography Curriculum to give our children the opportunity to learn skills required to become a geographer.

Our Geography Curriculum allows children to:

Be given tools to develop their own cultural awareness.
Understand and put forward ways to support their environment.
Recognise the importance of sustainable development.
Think about their own place in the world, including their values, rights and responsibilities to other people in the environment.
Develop their curiosity and fascination about the world and its people.
Investigate a range of places - both in Britain and abroad.
Develop their knowledge and understanding of the earth's physical and human processes.
Investigate and make enquiries about their local area of Levenshulme and Manchester so they can develop a sense of who they are, their heritage and what makes our local area unique and special.
Develop their ability to apply geographical skills to communicate their findings.
Develop a strong knowledge of where places are and what they are like, both in Britain and the wider world.
Gain a strong base of geographical knowledge and vocabulary explored through a range of sources of information.
Develop fieldwork skills.
Undertake geographical enquiry and investigate and express their views about people, places and environments.

At St Mary's, the teaching and implementation of the Geography Curriculum is based on the National Curriculum, and supported by 'Progression in Geography' ladders. These ladders (which are uploaded on this page) ensure a well-structured approach to progression in geography.
Using the National Curriculum as a guide, our Geography Curriculum has been broken down across year groups from Nursery to Year 6, to ensure good coverage of knowledge, concepts and skills.
The children are taught Geography termly.
Each topic draws on prior knowledge and makes links/comparisons/contrasts to other topics previously taught.