‘Trusting in God; Growing in Wisdom’

Becoming Geographers

Globe Showing Americas on Google Android 11.0 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.
Psalm 95: 4-5

 

Geography at Whitegate CE Primary School

 

At Whitegate CE Primary School we aim to inspire in children to be curious and fascinated about God's world and its inhabitants.  As we appreciate the natural beauty of the earth we are thankful to God for all that he has created.  Our aim is, not only for the children to grow in knowledge, but also in wisdom as we learn to be more socially and environmentally sensitive, better informed, and more responsible as citizens; afterall, we are called to be good stewards of God's earth. 

Our curriculum equips children with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, the formation and use of landscapes and environments, together with an understanding of the earth's physical and human processes and the interactions between these.

Geography enables our children to be aware of the knowledge, skills and cultural capital in order to have a broad and balanced view on the world.

 

The aims of teaching geography in our school are:

  • To enable children to know about the location of the world’s continents, countries, cities, seas and oceans.
  • To give a particular focus to the study of local geography to enable children to understand and appreciate their locality.
  • To develop the skills of interpreting a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems.
  • To help children understand how the human and physical features of a place can change over time.
  • To enable children to progressively develop their geographical skills (including fieldwork) throughout their school journey.

 

Websites we recommend to explore:
enlightenedGoogle Maps: 
https://www.google.com/maps
enlightenedUK OS Maps: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
enlightenedNational Geographic:
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/teacher-category/geography/
enlightenedRoyal Geography Website: https://www.rgs.org/schools/teaching-resources/
enlightenedGeography Association: https://www.geography.org.uk/
enlightenedBBC Weather: https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather
enlightenedKids First News Newspapers: https://www.firstnews.co.uk/  

 

If you have any questions about our Geography curriculum, please contact Mrs Mackenzie (subject lead) on mail contact@whitegate.cheshire.sch.uk
Thank you

 

Our Geography year group curriculum overview:

  Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term
Elm
Year 1

Under the Sea

 

Seasons and the Weather

 

The Equator: Hot and Cold Places

 

Oceans and Continents

 

Our Village

 

Aerial photographs and plans

 

Devising simple maps

Castles and Homes

 

Similarities and differences of homes around the world

Beech
Year 2

Medicine

 

Using world maps, atlases and globes to identify the UK, continents and oceans

 

Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the UK and a contrasting non-European country - Jamaica and Scotland

Explorers

 

Landmarks and basic human and physical features

 

Simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of school and its grounds

Compass points

Beside the Seaside

 

 Wales and Llandudno

 

Coasts

Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK and its surrounding seas

Cedar
Year 3/4

Rocks, Relics and Rumbles

 

Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides and the layers of the earth

 

 

The Industrial Revolution

 

Changes in landscape during the Industrial Revolution

Locating countriesBritain colonised during this time and the different routes they think people would have taken to reach the various British colonies, deciding why particular areas may have been colonised or certain routes wouldn’t have been viable

 

or

 

Raging Rivers

Settlements

Human geography including types of settlement and land use

or

South America

 

Environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities

Map Work (OS) including 4-figure grid references (linked to the residential visit)

Willow

Year 4/5

North America

including biomes

Environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities

Greece

or

Mountains, including Antarctica

Climate change - Our World, our Responsibility

Raging Rivers

including the water cycle

or

Conflict

Locate the world's countries - environmental regions and major cities

Map Work (OS) including 6-figure grid references linked to the residential visit

Oak
Year 5/6
 

Vale Royal

Local geography

or

Antarctica

Climate change - Our World, our Responsibility

 

Economic Activity and Trade Links

or

Our Natural World

Human geography distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

Coasts

Map Work (OS) including 6-figure grid references linked to the residential visit

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