At Highgate Primary School, the geography curriculum builds on the requirements of the National Curriculum and has been planned to equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world helps them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes. It also provides children with an understanding of the formation and use of landscapes and environments.
Our geography curriculum aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop location knowledge of significant places.
- develop an understanding of the physical and human characteristics of a range of significant and contrasting places in the UK, Europe and the wider world.
- an understanding of the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world.
- are competent in the geographical skills needed to collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes; interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS); communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
