St James CofE Primary and Nursery School
Geography
Our Intent in Geography at St James
Further information on our Geography timetable can be seen below:
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
| Year 1 | Where I live (local, human and physical geographical skills and fieldwork - farming) | London / Locational knowledge of the UK | Oceans and seas | |||
| Year 2 | Compare and contrast physical and human geography of the UK with a contrasting area - e.g. Zambia | Seven continents | Hot and cold places | |||
| Year 3 | Villages, Towns and Cities | Mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes | Water, weather and climate | |||
| Year 4 | Rivers | Migration | Natural resources in Northern Chile | |||
| Year 5 | Slums (Europe) | Biomes | Energy and sustainability | |||
| Year 6 | Local fieldwork | Population | Globalisation |
At St James C of E Primary and Nursery School, staff use the Reach Curriculum to facilitate their teaching of this subject. LYFTA is also programme that we use to enhance learning as it brings current content into the classroom in a highly visual way to support children cultural capital and understanding of the wider world.
We value the opportunity to broaden children's understanding of the world around them; the world they belong to. We challenge stereotypes and understand the importance of deepening learning through the development of critical thinking skills, peer discussion and high quality reading stimuli. To begin each lesson, we complete retrieval activities in order to solve misconceptions that children have and commit learning to long-term memory. This is done by recapping and reviewing previous content.
Take a look at some examples of children's learning across our school:
Year 1:
Year 2:
Year 3:
