As in all of our subjects, as children work through the geography unit in hand, they are given opportunities to explore and be immersed in the learning, be explicitly taught skills and learn to apply, and critique, them through our All Saints' Approach: Engage, Skill-Build and Create-Evaluate. 

In lessons, you will see the geography curriculum is aspirational for all learners and begins with offering opportunities to engage with new learning through exploration and asking questions. Our high quality teaching of geography embeds understanding and nurtures critical thinking for all of our children and is underpinned by key concepts such as place, scale and interconnections.

You will see learning is thoughtfully planned and sequenced to support progression, fitting with our skill-building approach, with opportunities to re-visit and apply knowledge.  Geographical vocabulary is applied within meaningful contexts. Our children develop skills through a range of 'hands on' activities such as locating and marking on maps, including digital mapping, carrying out surveys in our local area and visiting places of interest. As well as using digital mapping devices to record, our children develop their ability to interpret and present their findings, drawing on mathematical skills when creating and interpreting graphs and data, and summarising their findings.  

We understand that critical thinking can empower children to make informed choices to create, sustain and change the world around them. Therefore, our children’s learning is developed beyond the core knowledge of how, when and why, so they can understanding others’ perspectives as well as their own perceptions and feelings through skills such as identifying fact and opinion, bias and evaluating evidence.

Through a foundation of core, personal and empathic knowledge, our children are encouraged to build mutual respect, values and empathy.