About this curriculum

At Widey Court Primary School, our vision is to allow children to develop an understanding of the geographical world around them, starting with our school and the local environment before moving on to explore locations around the UK and then the wider world.

Intent

The children will participate in sequences of lessons that will be closely linked to the aims and objectives outlined in the National Curriculum. Children will develop knowledge and understanding focused on the four areas of the geography curriculum:

  • Locational Knowledge
  • Place Knowledge
  • Human and Physical Geography
  • Geographical Skills and Fieldwork

Throughout the year groups and Key Stages, the children’s knowledge and understanding will be reviewed through our ROCKS PowerPoints and then this will be developed further and used in practical situations. Children will be given opportunities to answer the geographical enquiry question at the end of each unit.

Implementation

EYFS

  • Understanding the World- People and Communities
  • Understanding the World- The World

The children will explore and create maps of the school and practice following simple directions. They will compare England and China, including looking at New Year celebrations. Throughout the year they will explore the different seasons and how the environment and weather changes.

KS1

  • Locational Knowledge
  • Place Knowledge
  • Human and Physical Geography
  • Geographical Skills and Fieldwork

In KS1 the children will explore the local area surrounding the school (Crownhill) before looking at Plymouth as a whole, then compare Plymouth to Cairns in Australia. They will explore locations by looking at the human and physical features present in each area. They will learn to use maps to identify locations including the countries in the UK, their capital cities and surrounding seas, identify key landmarks and practice following directions moving from left, right, forwards and backwards to north, south, east and west. They will explore keys and create maps using their own keys.They will learn the names and locations of the 7 continents and the 5 oceans but also develop an understanding of how the oceans are linked. The children will gain knowledge of how weather and climate changes depending on where in the world you are.

KS2

  • Locational Knowledge
  • Place Knowledge
  • Human and Physical Geography
  • Geographical Skills and Fieldwork

In KS2 children will

Whilst fieldwork is incorporated throughout the curriculum, all children will participate in ‘Fieldwork Fortnight’ each year where they will focus on answering a key question linked to our local environment.

Impact

Through lesson observations and child interviews, children will be able to demonstrate their increased geographical knowledge and understanding. Fieldwork will show that the children can apply their skills to gather information as well as interpreting data to explain what they have discovered. Book looks and planning security will show a clear sequence and progression of learning across each year group, key stage and the whole school.

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Sunday afternoon and a campfire tonight! 🔥
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Sunday Funday 💚⭐️….and a delicious roast at lunch!
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Part 1 …Afternoon and evening activities! Fun times! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️What a great day!!! Hot chocolate laid on for us tonight too as a treat! ☕️
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Saturday morning activities…part 2! ⭐️💚
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The members of our choir, Mrs Irvine and Mrs Keach had a wonderful time at Manadon Vale yesterday! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Morning campers! The best first night! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Ready for our three course breakfast!!!
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Evening activities and fun done for the night! Children have had a nibble from the treat box and are now getting ready for bed! Night Night! X x 💚
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Year 4 are settling into Barton Hall life! Enjoy our first meal! We have full bellies before heading to our rooms and then we have an evening of games! 💚⭐️
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It was a pleasure to accompany Miss Davies and a few Year 6s to a rounders evening at Stoke Damerel after school tonight! The children worked so well as a team showing respect and encouragement with each other …especially in this heat! Thank you for organising Miss Davies! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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So proud of our Field Gun crews who competed on the Hoe for Armed Forces Day. They won 4 trophies!!🏆🏆🏆🏆. Well done to everyone involved and thank you to those who came to support! 👏🏼🥳
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A special thank you to Scaff-Tec for sponsoring our ‘Runners’ field gun team! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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A special thank you to PQA for sponsoring our ‘Gunners’ field gun team! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Good luck to our two field gun crews today! If you are up on the Hoe today, here are the times of our runs: Gunners: 10:30 13:10 16:30 Runners: 11.20 14:00 15:50 Hope to see you there! 💚⭐️💚⭐️
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Year 5 have had a fabulous day at Lead Learners Day at Sir John Hunt secondary school! They had a fun day of sport, art, IT, biology and team games! A little taster of what’s to come when they reach Year 7! ⭐️💚⭐️💚
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Getting ready for armed forces day!! With one of our sponsor’s logos displayed behind our tent! Good luck to our two field gun teams ahead of the tournament tomorrow! A huge thank you to Mrs Maiden, Mr Rea, Mrs Lambourne and Leon for getting the children prepped and ready over the last few months! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If you are the Hoe tomorrow, please come and support our two teams!
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We are so very sad to say goodbye to Mrs Maiden today. We wish her all the best in her new role as Family and Community Solutions Co-ordinator - the families will be so lucky to work with you! ⭐️ Heartfelt thanks for all your support over the last 16.5 years with our pupils, staff, families and wider community! You will be missed! X x 💚💚
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Can you spot our decorated field gun wheels? Thank you Mrs Maiden and Year 6 forces children! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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