At Ryders Green, we strive to give every child, every opportunity, at their one chance in primary school.
Intent
At Ryders Green Primary School geography education will be fully inclusive to every child. Geography, by nature, is an investigative subject. Through our teaching, we intend to provoke thought, questions and to encourage children to discover answers to their own questions through exploration and research to enable them to gain a greater understanding and knowledge of the world and their place in it.
Our aims are to fulfil the requirements of the EYFS Framework and the Primary National Curriculum for Geography and provide opportunities to build incrementally on learning from when they first start school with us.
Implementation
To ensure high standards of teaching and learning in geography, we implement a curriculum that is progressive throughout the whole school. In We ensure that geography has the same importance given to it as the core subjects, as we feel this is important in enabling all children to gain ‘real-life’ experiences.
We use a variety of teaching and learning methods in our lessons – ensuring whole class teaching is combined with practical enquiry based research activities. We provide our children with opportunities to develop their critical thinking as a way of fostering curiosity.
Geography teaching focuses on enabling children to think as geographers: providing excellent opportunities to enhance the learning of more able pupils through the investigations, analysing sources and writing extending pieces.
At Ryders Green Primary School we provide a variety of opportunities for geography learning inside and outside the classroom. The golden thread of our Outdoor Learning curriculum is to ensure that children have an opportunity to embed and grow their understanding of their locality in the most practical sense. Teachers are encouraged to consider opportunities available to use the school grounds and the local area for fieldwork to enable children to base learning on first hand experiences to enhance teaching and learning in Geography.
Impact
Our geography curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. We focus on progression of knowledge and skills and discreet vocabulary also form part of the units of work. Children will deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes and how this affects landscapes and environments. Our children will be confident geographers and be able to clearly discuss their learning from past and current topics, as well as explain their next steps.
We measure the impact of our curriculum through a variety of methods. These include assessing children’s understanding of topic-linked vocabulary before and after each unit, capturing images and videos of practical learning, and gathering pupil voice through interviews about their learning. Staff also participate in moderation meetings to scrutinise books and discuss pupils’ work, alongside marking written work in books. Standards are reported annually to ensure all children are making progress across the curriculum.
