Our children are able to develop a fluent and complex knowledge of the world, making sense of geographical and social issues by organising and connecting increasingly complex information about Earth’s people, places, processes and environments. Throughout their learning journey, children will extend their knowledge from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract. They will also develop a secure understanding of key geographical skills, terminology and concepts, such as interpreting and constructing maps. Our children will develop their investigative skills by applying these with increasing independence to geographical enquiry.
During Key Stage 1, pupils investigate their local area and a contrasting area in the United Kingdom or abroad, finding out about the environment in both areas and the people who live there. They also begin to learn about the wider world. They carry out geographical enquiry inside and outside the classroom. Whilst doing this they ask geographical questions about people, places and environments, and use geographical skills and resources such as maps and photographs.
During Key Stage 2, pupils investigate a variety of people, places and environments at different scales in the United Kingdom and abroad, and start to make links between different places in the world. They find out how people affect the environment and how they are affected by it. They carry out geographical enquiry inside and outside the classroom. Whilst doing, this they ask geographical questions, and use geographical skills and resources such as maps, atlases, aerial photographs and ICT.