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Millom Infant School
Every child a learner, we all learn together
Geography
Our Vision
Geography is a valued part of the National Curriculum. It provides a means of exploring, appreciating and understanding the world in which we live and how it has evolved. Geography explores the relationship between the Earth and its people.
Geography stimulates curiosity and imagination and we aim to build upon the child’s ‘personal geography’ by developing geographical skills, understanding and knowledge through studying places and themes. It provides a child with a greater understanding of their own local environment.
Geography encourages children to learn through experience particularly through fieldwork and practical activities. This includes learning about our unique geographical location in the Western Lakes.
Our Geography teaching allows children to develop a sense of place and they begin to realise how nations rely on each other and this can inspire them to think about their own place in the world, their values, and their rights and responsibilities to other people and the environment.
Our Aims
- Inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
- 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.
- Develop a growing knowledge about the world to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments.
- Acquire Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills.
- Enable children to learn and explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time.
Our Curriculum
Early Years
Our pupils in Reception will follow the curriculum as set out in Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and CUSP. We will encourage the children to begin making sense of the world and their community by giving them opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment around them.
Key Stage One
During Key Stage One we will enable our pupils to develop knowledge about the world, the United Kingdom and their locality. We will ensure that they understand basic subject-specific vocabulary relating to human and physical geography and begin to use geographical skills, including first-hand observation, to enhance their locational awareness. This will include exploring the use of aerial photographs, maps, atlases and globes to locate places and the use of compass directions when giving directions