Geography

At Aspin Park Academy, we believe that children should be curious and investigative about the world they live in and show stewardship towards our planet. We aim to equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.

Opportunities for practical applications of geographical knowledge are facilitated through fieldwork in school, local area visits and trips, such as the year 4s residential to the coast. We are also very lucky to have local agencies and charities that come in to work with year groups across the school. 

Teaching of Geography at Elevate Trust schools is based on the aims and purposes outlined in the National Curriculum and has fidelity to the academic discipline of geographical learning.

Our curriculum is guided by the following:

The children will:

· Have secure contextual knowledge of local, national and globally significant places and be able to identify and locate a range of continents, countries and important cities.

· Have a secure understanding of a range of human and physical geographical characteristics and how these change over time.

· Be competent in the geographical skills needed to: collect, analyse and communicate a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork.

· Have secure knowledge of reading, understanding and creating/drawing maps. They will gain experience of using atlases, globes and aerial photographs.

· Have competent skills to communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

We have carefully designed a knowledge rich long term curriculum overview alongside a clear progression of skills. 

Geographical 'knowledge' at Aspin is split into 4 main areas: locational knowledge, local knowledge, place knowledge and the knowledge of human and physical features. We use the logos below, to help us think carefully about the skills which we need to apply within that specific lesson. We also have a logo for the 'skill' of fieldwork, as this is something which we highly value in order to give our children the opportunities to question, research and understand the world around them.