Our small steps geography curriculum can be found below.
You will see that it runs on a two-year rolling programme with all pupils at Longney experiencing two ‘We are Geographers’ enquiries each year. These units cover local Geography, UK geography, world geography and regional geography, with the children coming back to each area in every class as they progress through school, building on and retrieving their knowledge as they make progress through retrieval quizzes, carefully designed knowledge organisers and curriculum links which result in them knowing more and remembering more.
Throughout each unit, children use their knowledge of a range of geographical skills to support their learning about places e.g. map and atlas work, geographical data, knowledge of time and climate zones. Progression within each area is planned carefully (see plan below).
During each unit, they build their knowledge of human and physical features, progressing from basic knowledge of towns and roads to biomes and vegetation belts in upper Key Stage 2.
During the local geography unit in each class, the children carry out fieldwork planned progressively, allowing them to apply what they have learnt outside the classroom in real life situations.
Example knowledge organisers for each class can be found below. The knowledge they have learnt previously is always in purple so that teachers and pupils are aware of their prior knowledge:
