Intent

At Newbold Church School our Intent is to provide pupils with a deep understanding of people, place and the environment. Our teaching of geography ensures every pupil has a better understanding of our human and physical world. The knowledge, skills and values that we aim to develop in geography can be used to make a positive contribution to the world through social and environmental action. We aim to provide real and enhanced experiences, to ensure every pupil develops a love for the subject and reaches their full potential. 

Geography provides an understanding of the 'world's discipline'. It helps to give order and meaning to a diverse and complex world. We aim to build a progressive curriculum through careful planning, in order to provide inspiring, inviting and stimulating lessons that build upon previous learning. It is our intention that the knowledge and skills that pupils are taught in geography lessons, can be transferred to other curriculum areas, and these skills can enhance learning, and the opportunities that we provide, even further. 

Implementation

At NCS, our geography curriculum follows the National Curriculum and provides children with an array of enriching opportunities, with a strong focus on outdoor learning. Our children experience a range of school trips, including our residential trip to Whitehall and a number of local area visits to develop the children’s awareness of their locality. In lessons, children develop their geographical enquiry skills though exploring physical environments, human interactions and how the two areas intertwine with each other.

Our geography curriculum encompasses the aims of the National Curriculum (see below) to ensure all pupils: 

• develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places - both terrestrial  and marine - including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes. 
• understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are independent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time. 
• Are component in the geographical skills needed to: 
• collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen the understanding of geographical processes.   
•   interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) 
• communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length. 

Impact

It is our hope that all Newbold Church school pupils will use their geographical skills  to participate fully in, and make a positive contribution, to life in our society.

We use a range of strategies to assess what skills and knowledge the children have attained each term including the following:

• Revision of core questions at the start of the lesson 
• Book looks
• Pupil Voice 
• Regular feedback each lesson