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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FFUN Club - don’t forget the next one which is at 3.45pm-4.30pm on Tuesday 1 April!! See you there! Mrs Maiden & Mrs Dawes! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Easter Crafts! FREE parent’s workshop, 9am-11am on Monday 31 March here at Widey Court! Please let Sarah Maiden know if you can come along! 🐣
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Foundation Stage Forest School, Week 4! Wild garlic pesto! The children used wild garlic, olive oil, Parmesan, pine nuts and lemon juice to make a wild garlic pesto dip which they tried out for themselves on breadsticks!⭐️⭐️⭐️
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The children in Foundation ended their Chinese New Year topic by tasting Chinese food and enjoying their very own dragon parade around the school grounds! Happy Chinese New Year everyone! 🇨🇳 🐉 🍜 🍚 Video of the parade is in the comments below⬇️
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To check your eligibility, please visit https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/free-school-meals Any questions, please see the school office 😊
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We are very lucky to have Police Officer Middleton and PCSO Welch working with every year group over the next term to talk about either online safety or road safety. Today Year 5/6 were so engaged with the e-safety assembly and we’ve all taken away some important, key information about staying safe online! Please ask your child about it tonight! ⭐️✋📲✔️
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EYFS Forest School Week 3 - Bark Rubbing! 🌲🌳 A lovely sunny day in the forest bark rubbing! 🌞 A tricky skill but they enjoyed it and did so well! ⭐️
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FREE WORKSHOP for parents and carers @ Widey ‘Managing and Understanding Anxiety’ Monday 17th March 9am-10am at Widey Court. Refreshments available. Please come along! Please contact Sarah Maiden on 07565 175721 or email smaiden@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk If you would like to book a place. One of our Education Psychologists will be helping us to understand anxiety in ourselves and in our children. 💙
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🚧 ROADWORKS 🚧 As you may have noticed, there are temporary lights at the top of Widey Lane (Fort Austin Avenue). According to the Plymouth City Council website, these roadworks are scheduled until 21/03/2025. Please ensure you leave plenty of time when dropping off or collecting your child(ren). Thank you 😊
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On World Book Day, EYFS to Year 2 were delighted to welcome our storytellers this afternoon! Here is Seahorse Class enjoying their love of reading! 📚💚
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How lucky are we? 📚📚📚 A huge thank you to Mr Bradbury, one of our parent governors, who has donated 21 books, one per class, through his work at Services Design Solution. The books are focused on the themes of engineering, science, engineering and maths! Thank you so much! Happy World Book Day 📚📚📚
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Session 2 for our EYFS forest school learning. The children had a lovely time in their costumes and pyjamas in the forest today! Mrs Dawes and Mrs Maiden hid 30 cones all painted with different colours for the children to find in the woods! Everybody worked in their pairs and there were some lovely acts of kindness shown by the children who all helped each other! Well done! We are looking forward to next week's leaf rubbing session! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Year 4 are incredibly proud to share some exciting news with you! Year 4’s wonderful Roman writing is now beautifully displayed at Crownhill Library, where members of the public can enjoy and appreciate the children’s hard work. This is a wonderful opportunity for them to feel a real sense of pride in their work and we hope you take a moment to visit the library and see the work for yourselves! Well done Year 4! Thank you Mrs Omlo for taking the time to display this work! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Year 2 Teacher - Fixed Term Vacancy! ✏️ To apply, please complete an application form, available on the Connect website https://www.connectacademytrust.co.uk/vacancies All application forms are to be emailed to gdingley@wideycourt.plymouth.sch.uk Please share! 💚💛
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Thank you to Mrs Maiden for organising our FFUN family party for our forces families! A great time was had by all! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Thank you to Aggies who came along and ran activities all about ‘loyalty’ and how important it is in the military and in our day to day lives!
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EYFS have enjoyed their first of six Forest School sessions in our lovely woodland area! Thank you Mrs Maiden and Mrs Dawes for leading this! The children had a fabulous morning in the sunshine! 🌞⭐️🌲We focussed on following instructions and their gross motor skills by encouraging them to balance on the logs! Our resident robin was also there but nobody spotted it…keep your eyes peeled next week children! We finished off by plying the LAVA game - we had plastic sheets in the house colours and when lava is shouted the children had to quickly reach the correct coloured sheets for safety! 🌋🌋🌋🌋Great fun!
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The Attendance Non-Uniform Day WINNERS for Spring Term 1 for this Friday (28th February) are: EYFS- Bumblebee (98.2%) KS1 - Seahorse (97.6%) Year 3/4 - Buzzard (98.6%) Year 5/6 - Cotehele (96.5%) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Just a reminder that it is FFUN Club for all of our service families tomorrow at The Crownhill Family Centre 3.30-4.45pm. We have Aggies coming along who are running team games with a craft activity. Refreshments provided as usual! Mrs Maiden looks forward to seeing you there! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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