Intent
At Senacre Wood Primary, we aim to deliver a geography curriculum that is accessible to all and that will maximise the outcomes for every child so that they know more, remember more and understand more. Through an enquiry approach, our Geography Curriculum intends to:
- Deliver a high quality curriculum, through experiences in the classroom, with the use of fieldwork and educational visits, which inspires in pupils a curiosity about the world and its people.
- Instil a love for Geography in our pupils and develop their knowledge of the world, as well as their place within it, and encourage them to undertake new experiences throughout their life.
- Provide all pupils with opportunities to investigate and build geographical expertise from their local area to the wider world. This includes locational knowledge, understanding of human and physical features and geographical and fieldwork techniques.
- Encourage pupils to ask questions and propose solutions to environmental problems within the local community and the wider world which will enable them to become reflective members of society who consider their actions/choices and actively invest in protecting the planet.
For details of how we implement this within our school and how we measure the impact, please read our Geography policy.
Term 1
Oak Class are going to be exploring the local community as part of learning about who they are now they are at school.
As part of their learning about the Anglo Saxons, Willow Class are going to do some map work to discover where they came from and how they would have travelled here.
Sycamore Class are going to be learning about Farming and Factories: where does our food come from? We are going to do an in depth study about farming and food production from all around the world and look at the environmental impact of transporting food across the world.
Term 1 and 2 learning
Oak class went on a community walk as part of our people, culture and communities enquiry. We saw the Co-op and St Martin’s church.
Year 1 have been learning about the countries that make up the United Kingdom. We have learned the capital cities, looked at the flags. Taken virtual tours of the countries and even tasted some foods!
Year 2 have been learning about Continents and oceans.
Year 6 have been learning about food in our enquiry Factories and farming: where does our food come from?
“We learnt that not all of the food we eat starts as the form we see it like chocolate for example. First the sticky white substance is removed then it is left for 6-7 days, then it dries out. After this it gets roasted and the shells separate from the inner parts. After the nibs get ground into cocoa butter then it’s blended with sugar then it’s tempered and shaped.” Izzy
“We learnt about carbon footprint and how it causes climate change” Ugne
“Greenhouse gases cause heat to be trapped in Earth’s atmosphere.” Isobel
“Farms make more food because factories can’t grow food like farms, instead they process food they get from farms.” Danny