Our Vision for Geography at Woodlea!

At Woodlea, we aim to deliver a high quality geography education which inspires the children to become fascinated and curious about the world in which they live. It also allows our geographers to understand the processes which shape their world. 

Our vision statement for the subject of geography is as follows: ‘For all children to understand the world around them, the forces and features that shape it, and how we can affect and protect it.’

Intent:

We offer a structure of lessons that build up on prior knowledge and skills required to meet the aims of the National Curriculum. On top of this, we encourage the children to deepen their understanding and knowledge of the interaction between physical and human processes, natural disasters and worldly matters. Our main focus is to develop geographical knowledge, through teaching the skills of locational and place knowledge, human and physical geography and geographical skills and fieldwork.

Implementation:

We aim to implement these aims through a variety of strategies. Key geographical skills form the core of our geography teaching, leading to pupils who are confident and proficient in the study of geography. Children are given the opportunity to take part in local fieldwork such as walks in the local area and develop their mapping and locational skills, regularly using atlases, globes and maps to develop their geographical knowledge. Geography is taught as part of our themed work, alongside history, to ensure that pupils receive a diverse and in-depth curriculum. 

Impact:

Geographers will gain a variety of subject specific vocabulary and the ability to apply their geographical skills effectively within everyday life and in the future. Our learners will develop their questioning skills and have their cultural capital increased through our teaching of Geography. The children will improve their inquisitiveness  about the world around them. Formative assessment will be implemented after each session to ensure key learning has been achieved. 

Year 3 highlights Autumn
Have a look at some of the highlights from our volcanoes topic, focussing on Mount Etna.

Year 3 highlights Spring
Take a look at some of the highlights from our topic on Arctic Alaska.

Year 4 highlights
Have a look at some of the highlights of our European study, focussing on Bologna, Italy.

Year 4 highlights Spring
Have a look at some of the highlights from our coasts topic.

Year 5 highlights
Have a look at some of the highlights of our UK topic.

Year 5 highlights Spring

Have a look at some of the highlights from our city study of Liverpool!

Year 6
Have a look at some of the highlights from our fold mountains topic.

Year 6 highlights Spring

Take a look at some of the highlights from our topic on rivers!