Intent

Aspirations For The Future!

Pupils develop an understanding of how subjects and specific skills are linked to future jobs. 

Here are some of the jobs you could aspire to do in the future as a Geographer:

Marine Biologist

Weather Presenter

Forester

Farmer

For more career ideas, please visit First Careers.

Implementation

At Woodhouse West, we aim to develop the following concepts through the progressive teaching of geographical knowledge, skills and understanding. These essential threshold concepts are based on the requirements of the National Curriculum Programme of Study for Key Stage One and Key Stage Two.

Pupils will develop an understanding of the physical process that shape our landscapes and how humans impact on the land and environment. They will develop an understanding of how to use maps and build knowledge of significant locations and places so they better understand the world in which they live. They will learn how to compare where they live to other places in the world by building their knowledge of different regions of our planet.

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Geography Concepts

Pupils will understand that different parts of the world have different climates. The most familiar features of a region’s climate are temperature and precipitation.

Pupils will build and develop their knowledge of important places and areas of the world. They will develop the knowledge to be able to name and locate key towns, cities, counties, continents, seas and oceans as well as key regions such as the equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Pupils will learn how humans use and influence the landscape and develop an understanding of the relationship between the physical environment, trade, settlement and transport. They will learn about population, economic activity, human features, settlements, sustainability, including the impact of humans on climate.

Pupils will develop their knowledge that physical features are naturally occurring landforms of environments such as hills, mountains, valleys and bodies of water. These processes sometimes take millennia to happen and they are ongoing.

Impact

The impact of our curriculum is measured in terms of the extent to which pupils have developed new knowledge, understanding and skills and that they can use and recall this with fluency.  

This will be measured by:

• Lesson observations and book looks
• Subject review, feedback and action plans
• Pupil voice – questionnaires, pupil book reviews
• Subject Leader monitoring – Lesson visits, scrutiny of books, assessment, pupil interviews and questionnaires
• ASPIRE Awards
• External reviews