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Intent – Our Aims
At Broadfield, our aim is to provide opportunities for children to develop as confident, articulate and well-rounded children who can succeed as individuals and contribute to their community and the wider world.
We aim to:
- Inspire a curiosity and fascination about the world and people within it
- Promote children’s interest and understanding of diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes
- Equip children to apply the skills and knowledge they gain during their time at Broadfield to every aspect of their life in our ever-changing world
- Engage children with the world around them, at a local, national and international level, through trips, visits and discussions of current affairs
- Help children to develop a sense of responsibility, as well as pride in their local community.
Implementation – How We Will Do This
Within the Broadfield curriculum, geography is an ‘enquiry driver’ and will be taught regularly over a two year cycle.
Our geography curriculum offers:
- A range of experiences which contribute to every child receiving an engaging, balanced and broad curriculum which encompasses British values
- High quality and well-planned lessons which ensure progression within and across lessons and year groups
- Continuity and progression built around essential knowledge, understanding and key geography skills, enabling children to develop a deeper geographical understanding
- Geographical questioning to help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of the world in which they live and its people.
- Carefully chosen prerequisite and ‘in unit’ learning tasks enable children to develop and retain knowledge across a range of topics, build on key concepts and make links year by year.
- Additional challenges for able learners and modifications/ adaptations which ensure all children can access the curriculum
- Excellent opportunities for investigations and outdoor learning ensuring that the local area is fully utilised.
- Meaningful fieldwork trips which provide ‘real-world’ opportunities for children to develop and extend their geographical thinking and add value to classroom experiences. We are incredibly fortunate to have Alexandra Park closeby and where possible this area is used to provide hands-on experiences in an amazing environment, which includes a woodland and a lake, and provides opportunities for such skills as map reading and map creation.
- Cross curricular links with maths, science, and literacy which are carefully planned through our topic based curriculum. This encourages transferable skills and gives real-world meaning to geography whilst also increasing engagement.
We also gain children’s views about their learning and enjoyment of geography through pupil voice surveys and interviews. Staff meetings are planned to ensure the sharing of good practice across the topic-based curriculum and children’s work is displayed around the school to showcase high expectations, alongside encouraging a sense of pride in their work.
Impact
By the time children leave Broadfield, they will have acquired knowledge, skills and a deep understanding of:
- Where places are and what they are like
- Which places are interdependent and interconnected and how much human and physical environments are interrelated
- Geographical vocabulary
- Geographical enquiry and the ability to apply questioning skills.
- The techniques linked to fieldwork
- How to express well-balanced opinions, rooted in knowledge and understanding about current and contemporary issues in society and the environment.
In addition children demonstrate passion for, and a commitment to geography, having a real sense of curiosity to find out about their world and its people and having gained the cultural capital needed to succeed in their lives beyond primary school.