Geography

What does Geography look like at St Paul's?

In Geography, we strive to develop children’s curiosity of the world and people. Through a broad, balanced curriculum, we aim to develop geographical concepts, knowledge and skills whilst ensuring teaching is progressive and enables the children to develop a love for this subject. Through the teaching of Geography, we teach locational and place knowledge, develop children’s understanding of human and physical geography and geographical skills and fieldwork. 

In addition to lessons in the classroom, we encourage educational visits, where children will have the opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge beyond the classroom. Where possible, local links are encouraged to develop children’s understanding of the local surroundings.  

Children in EYFS engage in a variety of different activities to help them develop skills and experiences enabling them to develop a deeper Understanding of the World.

Children in Key Stages 1 and 2 access a range of different Geographical concepts throughout different year groups. Each year group completes 3 discrete units, with each year group focusing on: Human Geography in Autumn; Physical Geography in Spring; and a country comparison in Summer to apply their skills.

Our school overview for Geography can be found on the document below.

Enrichment Activities and Educational Visits

At St Paul's, children are provided with a range of different opportunities to apply their geographical skills and knowledge through fieldwork opportunities.

Pupils will have the opportunity to develop geographical and fieldwork skills, within their locality, and where appropriate, make connections and links to the wider world. The children will apply questioning skills to develop their enquiries. Children should engage with fieldwork activities within their school grounds, around their locality, and make comparisons with their findings to other locations around the world.

Educational visits have included River Studies, Housing and Land Use investigations, transport surveys and journeys on trains.  

In addition to this, children at St Paul's engage in biennial whole school Geography Days, allowing the children to gain a deeper understanding of new countries around the world.

Additional Support for Parents

Parents can find a range of lessons to support a broad Geography curriculum through the Oak National Academy website. These can be found for the Early Years Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

For more detailed information about the curriculum in each year group, please visit our Curriculum at St. Paul's page.