Intent

At Lynsted and Norton our intent is to provide children with a curiosity and fascination about the world. Teaching should equip children with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments. It is our aim to deepen children’s understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, ensure that children have a secure understanding of the formation and use of landscapes and environments, gain confidence and have practical experiences of geographical knowledge, understanding and skills, express well balanced opinions routed in very good knowledge and understanding about current issues in society and the environment.

Implementation

Our curriculum is has been developed using Kapow which allows lessons to be tailored and meaningful as they progression across the year groups. Our school values drive our curriculum and serve as a starting point to encourage our children to become critical thinkers and promotes ownership of learning. Geography topics are divided across cycle A and cycle B, with each class covering three different Geography topics within in each cycle. Enquiry-based questions, skills, knowledge and key vocabulary have been mapped out to ensure that curriculum coverage is ambitious, progressive and covers the key geographical concepts which are key to ensure our pupils think like a real Geographers! 

Pupils develop skills across four areas, locational knowledge, place knowledge , human and physical processes and fieldwork. 

Teachers use a range of formative and summative assessment strategies to ensure that pupils are achieving the desired outcomes. Our teachers use end of unit retrieval strategies to inform their judgements. 

Each unit of learning follows the school's curriculum design. Pupils engage pupils using an enquiry question and hook, develop their knowledge and understanding over time, before encouraging them to both innovate and express. Teacher then assess pupil's understanding of knowledge and skills through an end of unit assessment and retrieval task.