Geography

At Pinewood, we teach a knowledge-based curriculum which encourages children to discover and explore. We start each learning journey with a big question or theme title and an exciting launch to help children become immersed in their learning (e.g. Why is Nottingham an awesome place to live?). We plan using this programme alongside the KS1 National curriculum and EYFS curriculum. Each theme is carefully broken down and meaningful knowledge is taught in order to develop geographical and historical understanding. We carefully pick themes and content that inspire our children’s interest, enthusiasm and curiosity. We organise our curriculum in a way that pupil knowledge is built and that they can revisit and use it in the future. Additionally, we find ways to provide our children with a range of experiences to broaden their horizons. ​

​​​​                                                                                   Our Geography Intent

At Pinewood, we know an effective geography curriculum means pupils ‘know more, remember more and are able to do more’.  We want children to not only become knowledgeable about their locality, but we also want them to find out about the world around them. The world is a huge place. Therefore, we want pupils to find out about areas which have been thoughtfully and carefully picked. We want to develop a strong knowledge of place and encourage geographical enquiry which engages our children. We want to make geography relevant to the lives of our children; we want them to start to become investigators of geographical issues as they progress through key stage 2 so we need to equip them with the geographical knowledge to lead the way for this during KS1. Throughout our curriculum we want to build upon the pupil’s knowledge of human and physical processes and features and teach them about a range of environments. We want our children to experience looking at maps, atlases and carefully picked out stories that have geographical content. We also want children to begin to gain an understanding of important environmental issues.

              Most of all, we want our children to be little explorers with a thirst for knowledge about our world!