Our Geography Curriculum
Intent
At Maple Grove Primary School, we value Geography as a practical and engaging subject that motivates and inspires our children to be curious and fascinated about the world and its people. We aim to equip children with knowledge about people, resources, and natural and human environments in Maple Grove, Hemel Hempstead, and beyond (both nationally and globally). We also aim to inspire and inform children about diverse places around our exciting world in meaningful and relevant ways.
Our Geography scheme aims to inspire children to become curious and explorative thinkers with diverse world knowledge—in other words, to think like geographers. We want children to develop the confidence to question and observe places, measure and record necessary data in various ways, and analyse and present their findings.
Through this scheme of work, we aim to build an awareness of how Geography shapes our lives on multiple scales over time. We hope to encourage children to become resourceful, active citizens with the skills to contribute to and improve the world around them.
The scheme encourages:
• A strong focus on developing both geographical skills and knowledge.
• Critical thinking, with the ability to ask perceptive questions and explain and analyse evidence.
• The development of fieldwork skills across each year group.
• A deep interest and knowledge of pupils’ locality and how it differs from other areas of the world.
• A growing understanding of geographical concepts, terms and vocabulary.
Our Geography scheme of work supports children in meeting the Early Learning Goals for Understanding the World (the natural world and people, culture, and communities) and the end-of-key-stage attainment targets in the National curriculum.