Geography Intent

At Cowbit St Mary’s, our Geography curriculum is designed to develop children’s curiosity, fascination and appreciation about the world and beyond. We believe that Geography opens eyes and minds to enable pupils to grow into caring and responsible citizens of the world and learn about their place within it.  Children investigate a range of places – both in Britain and abroad – to help develop their knowledge and understanding of the Earth’s physical and human processes and the formation and use of landscapes and environments. We aim to foster in our children a love for learning about the environment and its landscape, where their questions are encouraged, and children are supported to become independent geographers.  We are committed to providing children with opportunities to investigate and make enquiries about the village of Cowbit and the wider local area so that they can develop a real sense of who they are, their heritage and what makes our local area unique and special (Belonging).  When children leave Cowbit St Mary’s, they will have a deep understanding of how Cowbit differs to other locations in the world and why.   The children will develop the ability to apply geographical skills to enable them to confidently communicate their findings and geographical understanding to answer enquiry-led questions.

Our Geography curriculum focuses on four key areas:

• locational knowledge,
• human and physical geography,
• geographical fieldwork
• geographical enquiry

Within our ambitious, progressive geography curriculum, we aim to develop in our children the following essential characteristics of geographers:

• • An excellent knwledge of where places are and what they are like, both in Britain and the wider world
  • A cmprehensive understanding of the ways in which places are interdependent and interconnected.
  • An extensive base f geographical knowledge and vocabulary
  • The ability t apply questioning skills.
  • The ability t reach clear conclusions and explain their findings.
  • Excellent fieldwrk skills
  • The ability t express well-balanced opinions, rooted in very good knowledge and understanding about current issues in society and the environment e.g. deforestation, fair trade etc
  • A genuine interest in the subject and a real sense f curiosity about the world and the people who live here.