•  Our curriculum aims to inspire pupils to cultivate clear aspirations for the future, instilling in them a strong sense of responsibility as citizens and empowering them to lead rich and meaningful lives that contribute positively to the world around them.

• Through our curriculum, we aim to ignite inquisitive minds that are curious and fascinated about the world and their people.
• In Geography, we expose children to potential careers and future hobbies. We want our children to leave with clear aspirations for their future and confident in the practical life skills they have learned.
• We provide a variety of enrichment activities in Geography – including exciting fieldwork opportunities for us to ‘explore geography through the soles of our feet’. 

• Children are encouraged to challenge themselves with their learning becoming lifelong learners, fostering in them a positive mindset that embraces curiosity, resilience and a passion for continuous growth.
• The geography curriculum and our St. Anne’s Learning Powers equip our learners with the knowledge and attitudes necessary to embrace new challenges, adapt to an ever-changing world, and thrive as individuals.
• As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world helps them to deepen their understanding about the interaction between human and physical processes and of the formation and use of landscapes. 
• Through the teaching of subject specific technical vocabulary and opportunities to apply this, children are able to articulately communicate their geographical knowledge and understanding.

• Our geography curriculum is designed to cultivate  courageous advocates who protect the future of our world. This is  extended further by the hard work of our Eco Committee who lead the school in becoming more environmentally friendly.

• At St Annes, we strive for pupils to understand their local area and how they can protect, preserve and develop their immediate surroundings for future generations. 

• Our curriculum aims to foster respect and promote an understanding of the diverse beliefs and cultures of individuals within our local, national, and global community. 
• Geography promotes understanding and respect for diverse cultures, inspiring students to aspire to be global citizens.
• Our children learn how to become stewards of God’s earth, understanding how actions of ourselves and others impact the world and the responsibilities we need to have in the present.
• Children learn how to care for and respect themselves; looking after their own physical and mental wellbeing.

An inspiring and engaging geography curriculum, taught by enthusiastic staff, which stimulates pupils’ interest to help them foster a sense of wonder in the world around them, whilst developing an informed concern for the quality of the environment.

·         To help pupils acquire a wide range of geographical knowledge and skills to enable them to understand the relationship between Earth and its people

·         To develop pupils’ knowledge of the location of different places including their physical and human characteristics and how these provide context for understanding their geography.

·         To enable children to understand how the Earth’s features are shaped, and change over time.

·         To help pupils understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they change over time.

·         To develop the geographical disciplinary concepts to collect and analyse information gathered through first hand experiences of the environment and to carry out geographical enquiries.

·         To enable pupils to interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and communicate geographical information in a variety              of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and recording.

·         To use geography to develop pupils' learning powers in literacy, numeracy and ICT and to promote pupils' awareness and understanding of gender, cultural, spiritual and moral issues.

·         To enable children to identify links to geographical understanding and concepts across all curriculum subjects to successfully answer learning challenge questions.

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By the end of EYFS, the majority of pupils will be able to describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, non – fiction texts and maps. Pupils understand the similarities and differences between the natural world around them and contrasting environments. They will be able to explain some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other countries. This substantive knowledge is built through experiences and stories that have been read in their classes. They will be able to understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them (including seasons and changing states of matter)

By the end of KS1, the majority of pupils have developed a knowledge about the world, the United Kingdom and their locality. Pupils understand basic- subject specific vocabulary relating to human and physical geography. Pupils who have begun to use subject specific vocabulary and have begun to develop disciplinary concepts such as including first- hand observation and fieldwork to enhance their local awareness.

By the end of KS2, children have extended their knowledge beyond that of the local area to include the United Kingdom and Europe, North and South America. They have explored the location and characteristics of a range of the world’s significant human and physical features.

Alongside the substantive concepts covered in these topics, children explore disciplinary concepts which repeat throughout to allow them to learn to investigate as a geographer would. We believe building knowledge in this way prepares children to deeply engage with other geographical learning in KS3.