KS1-KS2 Geography Objective Overview
2022-2023
Bishop Martin Geography Promise Inspiring and encouraging our children’s curiosity to enable them find out about the world that they live in underpins the Ge ography work that we do here at Bishop Martin. We believe that Geography helps our children to provoke and answer questions about b oth the natural and human worlds. We understand the importance of encouraging natural curiosity in the children to enable them to become inquisitive learners who question the world around them with interest. As a whole school, we explore and compare countries and culture around the word, for example with whole school themes, language days and linking learning to other subjects. We strive for the children develop and use subject specific vocabulary that evolves throughout their learning journey through EYFS to KS2. In EYFS, Geography is taught under the curriculum area of ‘Understanding the World’, providing the children the opportunities to explo re and investigate the world around them in the outdoor learning environments. In Key Stage 1 and 2, the children are given a wide range of learning opportunities to enable them to develop a variety of skills within our creative thematic lessons, where we provide investigative and enquiry b ased learning opportunities. We encourage the children to ask questions about their environment, both human and physical. At Bishop Martin, we encourage children to develop a greater understanding of the world and their place in it, with opportuni ties to explore current environmental issues at both a local and global level. Our Eco-Committee is made up of one child from each year group. The Eco-Committee explore key environmental issues and create an action plan that highlights how we can do our bit to make improvements in school, such as the amount of litter found on school grounds and the amount of energy we use in school to help lower Bishop Martin’s impact on climate change. Additionally, the children work together to plan events and activities throughout the year for the whole school to enjoy, especially during our whole school Outdoor Learning Week and ‘Earth Day’.
Purpose of study A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments.