GEOGRAPHY
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Subject Overview
WHAT DO WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO LEARN IN GEOGRAPHY?
Please click to view our Progression of Knowledge and Skills in Geography. This shows what we want our children to learn in Geography at Norristhorpe.
Geography After School Club
Mr Ormondroyd took his Geography after school club on a local walk. The children took it in turns to navigate the footpaths across the fields, they passed a farm and got a bit muddy. They navigated to a trig point in the local recreation ground. Everyone had a great time!
Intent
At Norristhorpe, following our core value of equality, pupils are provided with a geography curriculum that is ambitious and designed for all. It is coherently planned and sequenced towards cumulatively providing the necessary knowledge and skills for the pupils’ future to empower them to take their role as responsible, respectful, informed and active citizens. Its emphasis is not just on geographical knowledge but also skills and concepts. It has the same challenging academic ambitions for all pupils.
IMPLEMENTATION
At Norristhorpe, we teach Geography for at least 1 hour a week, in alternate half terms. Geography teaching in Norristhorpe develops the core geographical knowledge identified in the National Curriculum. We employ a variety of teaching approaches appropriate to the content and desired learning outcomes in order to engage all pupils and enable them to not just acquire knowledge but to apply it in meaningful contexts. Appropriate discussion is used as a means of checking pupils’ geographical learning systematically, identifying misconceptions and providing immediate feedback. Revisiting ideas and concepts in different, more challenging, contexts in later units, using varied assessment tasks and the inclusion of quizzes are all designed to help pupils remember content and integrate new knowledge into their evolving conceptual framework. Visual literacy is developed through the use and careful questioning of resources.
An enquiry approach is used as a shared experience, with key and supplementary questions, to encourage curiosity, geographical thinking, exploration and research, and to combine relevant knowledge with skills. Pupils will often discover that some of the questions have more than one answer, some of which are ‘better’ than others. This is particularly true when environmental issues are discussed, and experts propose different solutions. Pupils can therefore explore how ‘real world’ decisions are made. Cross-curricular links are made whenever appropriate. Geography in Norristhorpe builds on the Early Learning Goals acquired in Reception and prepares the pupils for the Key Stage 3 programmes of study.
IMPACT
The impact of Geography is evidenced through the pupils’ use and understanding of identified geographical vocabulary and their association of it with relevant images and features. It is evidenced by the use and outcomes of the varied activities, assessments and quizzes given throughout school. It is also demonstrated by the pupils’ ability to show progress along the ‘observe, use geographical vocabulary to describe, compare, give reasons and explain what they are learning about’ sequence, and in their acquisition, application and transferability of geographical skills. In particular, it is evidenced by the pupils’ ability, willingness and confidence in addressing and discussing each unit’s key question, giving an ability-indicative response focusing on geographical vocabulary, skills and concepts. The focus throughout is on contextualized geography, using real, named, often local localities and environments which can be located on appropriate maps. Throughout the units, knowledge, skills and concepts are brought together holistically, underpinned by the development of a strong and evolving subject vocabulary with which to talk about and discuss the geography being learned.
Year 6 Geography Walk
As part of the Year 6 Geography unit - Our World in the Future - we carried out a field study of our local area to answer our learning objective - What, in our local area should we preserve for the future? We identified physical, human and topographical features.
Earth Day 2024
On Monday 22nd April, we all enjoyed sharing our favourite places as part of Earth Day. There were presentations and souvenirs shared of our special places, as well as posters and even some very professional looking videos! Thank you to everyone who contributed. We learned so much about lots of places that are special to Norristhorpe children, including some relatively nearby and others very far away- even as far as New Zealand! We were reminded what amazing places there are in our world and how we should try our best to take care of them. 
