Purpose of the Curriculum:
(What will a high quality Geography education do for our children?)
- Inspire inquisitive minds to find out about the world and its people
- Equip pupils with a knowledge about diverse places and people
- Ensure that pupils are aware of our location within the wider world
- Develop an awareness of locations and features of places within the world
- Promote a range of skills to enable pupils to ‘think and work like geographers’
Aim of the Curriculum:
By the end of their time at St Mary & St Margaret’s CE Primary, all pupils should be able to:
Knowledge:
- To have a clear understanding of location
- To locate Birmingham, the UK and its countries
- To locate countries of Europe, North and South America
- To locate continents, oceans and seas of the world
- To have an in depth knowledge of places
- To identify similarities and differences between the UK, countries in Europe and North and South America
- To develop a complete understanding of countries (culture, flags, language, etc)
- To know the features of physical and human geography
- To understand weather patterns and climates
- To know the parts of the water cycle
- To identify physical features of the world
- To know the human features of countries studied
Skills:
- To use and apply the skills of a geographer
- To accurately use a map, globe or atlas
- To use a compass and know 8 compass points
- To read and plot co-ordinates and grid references
- To use a range of accurate geographical vocabulary
- To plot and follow directions
- To sketch, plot maps and graphs to support fieldwork