Geography Vision
At Alexandra Infants’ School we ensure that all children are provided with the tools to meet age related expectations. We aim to excite, inspire and engage young children in positive and inclusive learning opportunities. We work with children to develop a sense of local and global location and appreciation of similarities and differences across the world. We aim to inspire a lifelong love of learning and making links across the curriculum, their personal lives and the wider world. We use questions to begin our lessons to elicit children’s thoughts and feelings and, where appropriate, use these ideas to lead learning.
The children access a range of visits, visitors and wow events in school to launch or apply learning in different contexts. We provide opportunities to develop simple fieldwork skills and apply them, initially within the school grounds progressing through Normacot and Longton to comparing a seaside location and Stoke on Trent. We provide a language rich learning environments to encourage and develop communication skills.
Subject Leader Promise:
My name is Mrs Heath and I am the geography subject leader at Alexandra Infants’ school. My promise to our pupils is to ensure that they all understand their place in the world and know where they come from.
We have recently moved to the Kapow scheme of work for Geography. The curriculum is sequenced as a progression model, ensuring a clear path of progression in skill development across the whole school. This enables pupils to develop skills over a longer period of time, thus becoming confident, competent learners. The scheme also promotes a retrieval of knowledge and development of skills. I am passionate about linking the geography curriculum to current global topics such climate change and recycling and its impact on our world. Teaching the children about how we can help by making small changes for a wider global impact, developing the children’s cultural capital.
Topic floor books celebrate the work that the children take part in and enable me to carefully monitor the quality of the geography curriculum.
Link Governor: Mr A Powell.
Geography Curriculum:
At Alexandra Infants’, the geography curriculum is split into topics. These topics ensure that the children gain the common body of knowledge set out by the national curriculum. Our school uses the Alexandra Promise that supports the geography curriculum by providing children with activities such as:
- Look at a map and find where you live
- Discover a pond
- Walk to a local landmark
- Roll down a hill
- Climb up a huge hill
- Write a weather report
- Take a trip to the seaside or walk alongside a river
Educational Experiences
Fieldwork is an integral part of the geography curriculum and the visits enrich a child’s experience of a particular topic and/ or concept. We include as many opportunities as we can to include enquiry into our topics to enhance learning. These are some of the activities that our children have had the opportunity to experience:
– Local area walks to create maps.
– Visits to a range of farms locally and further afield.
– Visits to the seaside.
Curriculum Documents:
Geography Curriculum Overview
Geography Vertical Progression
Geography Policy