Geography
"The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. It's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together"
Barack Obama
Through the teaching of Geography we aim to help the children at Bickerton Holy Trinity CE Primary School develop a greater understanding and knowledge of the world, as well as their place in it. Through sequenced, enquiry-based learning, children will have the opportunity to develop their understanding of geographical concepts, knowledge and skills starting from their local area, to the United kingdom to world geography. In EYFS and KS1 children start every year focusing on their own locality. The curriculum will expand outwards from the immediate locality but with a comparison and contrast to the local at each step. By starting with their immediate environment, children are given first-hand experiences to be able to question and investigate their most familiar environment before using and developing their geographical skills through the study of the wider world. It is our intention that pupils become more expert as they progress through the curriculum, accumulating and connecting substantive and disciplinary geographical knowledge.
Understanding Geography ensures our children become tolerant and knowledgable citizens, who value diversity and understand their role in shaping how our future looks. They develop and build their geographical skills in the classroom and out and about in the real world during purposeful fieldwork opportunities.