Geography

To be light (living in our community and reaching out beyond it) bringing out the God-colours in the world.’

Jesus said, ‘You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world.’ Matthew 5:16

Our curriculum is ambitious for our children and is based on the National Curriculum. Nevertheless, we recognise that this is the minimum entitlement for our children. Each subject is taught as a discrete discipline. Whilst developing our curriculum, links were considered very carefully to build on knowledge and skills within each subject, across the school and across subjects. We also carefully considered our local context, diversity, environmental awareness and health education when designing our curriculum.

Geography

The overarching aim for Geography at the Nethersole CofE Academy is to ensure that all pupils foster a love of learning and curiosity about the world we live in. We aim to inspire our children with a lasting fascination with the world, including developing their knowledge about diverse people, places and environments. Our children will develop an understanding of physical and human geographical processes made relevant by studying our locality as well as the UK and world communities and environments.

We provide opportunities to explore the diversity of different societies and the relationships between them, enabling the children to have a strong understanding of diverse places, resources and environments and how they came to be that way. We want our children to learn key geographical skills, such as map reading, data analysis and fieldwork techniques and we provide opportunities for them to practise skills of critical thinking, questioning and analysing sources of evidence so that they form well-reasoned opinions about geographical issues. Finally, we aim that they will develop a strong foundation in geographical knowledge and an awareness of global issues which will help them lead sustainable and fulfilling lives.