"Geography explains the past, illuminates the present and prepares us for the future"
Michael Palin

Our geography curriculum ensures all children develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places including their defining physical and human characteristics and know how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes. Alongside this, they will develop the geographical skills needed to collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork and interpret a range of sources of geographical information. Teaching equips 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.

During EYFS, pupils will learn about similarities and differences in relation to places.  They will be able to talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments may vary from one to another.  Our youngest pupils will also learn about natural processes such as the water cycle and start to use early mapping skills.

In KS1, pupils will develop knowledge about their local area and then explore the rest of the United Kingdom and then the wider world. In Year 1 the children will explore their local area and learn about seaside villages and downs such as Berrow, Brean and Weston Super Mare. In Year 2 the children will build on this and will extend their learning to include our closest city, Bristol as well as the continents and oceans. In KS2, children will be able to make links and build on previous learning to extend their knowledge and understanding and make comparisons beyond the local area to include the whole of the United Kingdom and Europe and the rest of the world. Children will be taught geography skills such as how to use resources like world maps, atlases, globes, digital/computer mapping and compasses.

This learning pathway demonstrates the geography curriculum as it progresses through the school