‘Learning for Life.’
Geography
Statement of Intent and Implementation
Foundation Stage
Over Foundation Stage (FS), in Geography, the children will:
Be inspired with curiosity and fascination for the local community and its people.
Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns
and change within their environment and the wider world.
To communicate their own ideas and observations through play, exploring, recording and sharing these with others.
By the end of FS, a child who is attaining typically will be able to:
Talk about their family and events special to them as an individual. Know other families share these experiences in the local community and celebrate these similarities and differences.
Know that the World has hot and cold areas.
Know they live in Stocksbridge.
Know London is a big city in the UK and name special places there.
Know that the UK is an island surrounded by sea.
Draw simple pictures of their surroundings.
Be aware of the delicate planet that we live in and the need to look after our local environment.
Over Key Stage One (KS1), in geography, the children will:
Be inspired with curiosity and fascination for the World and its people – its places, cultures and lives.
To develop and deepen their geographical knowledge, understanding and skills. Through fieldwork, photographs, mapping and communication. (digitally)
By the end of KS1 a child who is attaining typically will be able to:
Investigate the local environment identifying key features with fieldwork (from the school grounds to the hills through the valley to its reservoirs and unique industrial heritage) and contrast with World locations using appropriate vocabulary and ask questions such as “What is this place like?”
Know the 7 continents and 5 oceans of the World and locate the North and South Pole and the Equator. Know they have an impact on our climate for all creatures living on Earth.
To know the four countries of the UK and their characteristics including our four seasons.
To communicate their knowledge through a growing vocabulary including compass directions, using their own maps with keys and digitally responding to areas with aerial photographs and media.
Investigate patterns through comparing and contrasting locations taught- through the continents studied at depth-Europe & Africa. This will include climate, human and physical features.
To use their knowledge to be thoughtful and sensitive to care for the Earth to benefit themselves and other. To sustain, enable and enhance lives, environments and places.
Blog
Planting, planting and even more planting!
Over the last few weeks in Gardening Club, the children have enjoyed planting a range of seeds and vegetables. They have also worked hard to fill the new planters around the school grounds with compost and a variety of plants.
Raspberry Smoothies in Gardening Club
The Gardening Club has been working hard over the past few weeks to care for our raspberry plants. This week, the children were delighted to see that the fruit was finally ready to be picked. With great excitement, they...
Gardening Club
In Gardening Club, the children have been busy planting a variety of vegetables. They also worked together to plant sprouts into our large planter on the school field.
Bird Feeders in Gardening Club
This week in Gardening Club, the children enjoyed a very hands-on activity: making bird feeders! Using a variety of ingredients such as cheese, raisins, lard and bird seed, they created tasty treats to support our local birds and wildlife. Once they were finished, the...
Exploring the Wonders of India
As part of our ‘Where in the World?’ topic, the children have been learning all about India this week. They took part in a variety of exciting activities, including making Indian flags and using their fine motor skills to design beautiful Rangoli pattern paper plates....
Ooh La La, we’re off to France!
As part of our ‘Where in the World?’ topic, the children have been learning all about France this week. They took part in a range of exciting activities, including making French flags and colourful French necklaces. The children also had the chance to try some...
Class 8 looking after the environment
In Class 8, we have talked about different ways to look after our environment. We talked about how important it is to put our rubbish in the bin. We looked at some photos of where rubbish had been left on the ground and animals had got stuck in it or tried to eat it....
Our Local Walk around Stocksbridge
Class 8 have been on a local walk around Stocksbridge. The children had to complete an I Spy worksheet, where they had to look for different signs of Autumn and different features in Stocksbridge. We finished our walk with a visit to the park.
Local Area Geography Walk
To enhance our geography learning, we took the children out into the local area to identify human and physical features. The children were able to spot a whole range of things and could identify why we were in the countryside, discussing things like fields, dry stone...
Exploring the Seven Continents
In Geography this term the children have been exploring where in the world the seven continents are and what countries are in them.