Geography
At Mill Hill, our Geography curriculum aims to inspire curiosity and critical thinking about the world. We want children to explore local, national and global environments, developing key geographical knowledge and skills along the way.
Intention
At Mill Hill we believe that:
- A high quality geography education provides the foundations for understanding the world through the knowledge of location, interactions and development.
- Geography inspires children, developing their sense of excitement and curiosity about the world around them.
- Geography enables children to develop an essential range of skills that are useful across all learning.
Mill Hill uses Kapow’s Primary Geography scheme of work as a resource and aims to inspire pupils to become curious and explorative thinkers with a diverse knowledge of the world; in other words, to think like a geographer. We want pupils to develop the confidence to question and observe places, measure and record necessary data in various ways, and analyse and present their findings. Through our scheme of work, we aim to build an awareness of how Geography shapes our lives at multiple scales and over time. We hope to encourage pupils to become resourceful, active citizens who will have the skills to contribute to and improve the world around them.
Our scheme of work encourages:
- A strong focus on developing both geographical skills and knowledge.
- Critical thinking, with the ability to ask perceptive questions and explain and analyse evidence.
- The development of fieldwork skills across each year group.
- A deep interest and knowledge of our locality and how it differs from other areas of the country and the world.
- A growing understanding of geographical terms and vocabulary.
Implementation
The National curriculum organises the Geography attainment targets under four subheadings or strands:
- Locational knowledge
- Place knowledge
- Human and physical geography
- Geographical skills and fieldwork
Our Geography scheme of work has a clear progression of skills and knowledge within these four strands across each year group. Our Progression of skills and knowledge shows the skills taught within each year group and how these develop to ensure that attainment targets are securely met by the end of each key stage. Our National curriculum mapping document shows which of our units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the four strands.
