We teach Geography in depth as part of our 'Explore' term.  

We want children to really understand where they lived in relation to other parts of the world, so structure each year as three 'place' studies for the opportunity to zoom in and zoom out and keep revisiting and putting things in context. In Key Stage 1, children learn about their local area, then zoom out across the United Kingdom as a whole before looking globally at the polar regions and hot and cold regions, including learning about Djibouti through a personal link we have as school through charity work.

In Key Stage Two, children continue to study three places a year – a local place, a European place and an American place, carefully chosen to link with National Curriculum requirements.  This ensures that by the end of a child's primary education with us, they will have 'visited' 21 different places around the world!

The whole curriculum is designed with the geographical concept of ‘place’ at its heart and, as good geographers, we encourage the children to ask similar questions about very different places: ‘Where is this place?’ ‘Why would people choose to live in this place (or not!)?’ ‘How is this place changing?’

We have eight important geographical concepts taught throughout each unit: place, space, scale; Earth systems; human and physical interconnection, and sustainability; environment and time.  The understanding of these concepts is built on throughout KS1 and KS2, developing the children as skilled geographers, ready to embark on further study later in their education.