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The Corpus Christi Geography Curriculum

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Our aspirations and aims for Geography at Corpus Christi Catholic School Our curriculum intent

As Catholic Primary educators, we are passionate about Geography.

We believe the interaction between humans and our fragile world to be the key challenge facing our world in the 21st Century. We know that the future of our world rests in the hands of our children. We have the responsibility to provide our children with the knowledge, skills and confident to become true global citizens. We teach our children to be inquisitive, to ask questions and to challenge decision makers and human behaviour within a local, national and global context. Ultimately, we want our children to care about the world around them, who know and understand their world and their role within it.

 Our Geography curriculum focuses on two main themes:

·  How human actions impact on our world

·  How our world impacts on humans

Our Geography Curriculum is designed to allow children to learn about the physical processes of our planet, human societies and environmental changes within a local, national and global context. In order to really understand the connection between humans and the physical world, we believe that our children must explore and learn about the social, moral and cultural issues that affect human behaviour. To achieve this, we have threaded the 7 principles of Catholic Social Teaching are through our Geography Curriculum:

   1.  Life and dignity of the Human Person: How has the impact of climate change effected people across the world? How do we protect human life in vulnerable countries where there is          poverty and natural disasters such as earth quakes? How does the physical world affect human life?

   2.  Call to family, Community and Participation: We are called to respect all of God’s gifts of creation, to be good stewards of the earth and each other. How can we be good stewards          of God’s creation?

   3.  Rights and Responsibilities: All people have the right to participate in decisions that affect their lives. We all have a duty to work for the common good for example through            Geography, we think about how does climate change affect the poor of this world?

   4. Option for the poor and vulnerable: We are called to look at public policy decisions in terms of how they affect the poor. For example, in Geography we think about fair trade. We       think about how we can support the poor who live in parts of the world where extreme weather has destroyed livelihoods and homes. We ask questions – how does what we do in the first world, affect those in the third world.

  1. The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers: People have a right to decent and productive work, fair wages, private property and economic initiative.
  2. Solidarity: We are one human family. Our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, economic and ideological differences. In Geography how do we work together to combat climate change? Poverty?
  3. Care for God’s Creation: The goods of the earth are gifts from God. We have a responsibility to care these goods as stewards and trustees, not as consumers and users. In Geography we look at what we can do to stop climate change, we think about where our food comes from and how we heat our homes. We think about animals and plants that are endangered.

Finally, we believe that Geography is by its nature, an investigative subject where children will experience concepts at first hand through field work.

Geographical Skills & Fieldwork

In EYFS, pupils will be taught to:

  • To describe their immediate environment using knowledge from observation, discussion, stories, nonfiction, texts and maps.
  • To know some similarities and differences between different religious and cultural communities in this country, drawing on their experiences and what has been read in class.
  • To explain some similarities and differences between life in this country and life in other

In Year 1 and Year 2, pupils will be taught to:

  • use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied.
  • use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language [for example, near and far; left and right], to describe the location of features and routes on a map
  • Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key
  • Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment.

In Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6, pupils will be taught to:

  • use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
  • use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the United Kingdom and the wider world
  • use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.

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