At James Cambell Primary School, it is our intention that Geography will inspire pupils with curiosity and fascination about the world and its people. We offer opportunities for children to explore the world to develop an understanding of the human and physical world in which they live and their place within it. We aim to promote the children's interest and understanding about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
We follow Kapow Primary’s Geography scheme of work which enables pupils to meet the end of key stage targets in the National Curriculum. By following this scheme, we aim to inspire pupils at James Cambell to think like a geographer and become explorative thinkers with rich and diverse knowledge of the world around them. In geography lessons, the pupils have the opportunity to conduct fieldwork activities where they develop their confidence to question and observe places, measure and record data and analyse and present their findings. Through this, we hope to encourage children to be active citizens who have the skills to contribute to and improve the world they live in.
Pupils also have the chance in Year Five to attend the residential trip to Trewern where they have various opportunities to develop geographical fieldwork skills. This supports the work done in and around the school’s grounds and local community. Learners will investigate a range of places, both in Britain and abroad.
We want the children to have a love of geographical learning, gaining knowledge and skills through high quality teaching both inside and outside the classroom. We aim to develop children’s Geographical vocabulary and love of reading by immersing them in a variety of texts: articles about world events, deforestation, natural disasters and their impact. This is aimed at giving children a deeper understanding and awareness of the natural global phenomena and to widen their experience of the environment away from their homes. We introduce children to maps from KS1 to build a firm foundation and knowledge about the continents that make up the world, the biomes and diversity within them and the uniqueness and importance of each continent as well as the importance of biodiversity, population and food production as well as distribution.
