Our aim is to provide a high-quality Geography education which equips children with locational knowledge, place knowledge, human and physical geography, geographical skills and provides them with experience of fieldwork. The curriculum will provide children with key knowledge about the world around them and the key features of their local area including Portsmouth. By the time they leave King’s Academy Northern Parade, children will have gained key knowledge and skills in the four main areas of Geography and how it links to themselves in the area in which they live. The objectives within each strand support the development of learning across the key stages, ensuring a solid grounding for future learning and beyond.

At King’s Academy Northern Parade, Geography knowledge is taught explicitly using a spiral curriculum approach, meaning that in each year group there are elements of new learning and building upon previous learning to strengthen the pupils’ understanding. Clear links are made to Portsmouth and the surrounding area. The objectives covered are taken directly from the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and are split across the year groups from EYFS to Year 6. This ensures progression and avoids cumulative disfluency. Teachers are encouraged to employ a spaced recall teaching style in order to support children in committing the learning to their long-term memory.

The implementation of the curriculum aims to ensure a balanced coverage of the key areas of Geographical understanding and fieldwork. The children will have experiences of all four strands in each year group, but the subject knowledge imparted becomes increasingly specific and in depth, with more complex skills being taught, making sure that learning is being built upon. This knowledge is taught through 3 geography units across the year: The World, The United Kingdom and Fieldwork.

Our approach to the curriculum results in a fun, engaging and high-quality Geography education. It aims to expose our children to the curriculum concepts of learning, progress, automaticity and cultural capital. We showcase the quality of children’s learning through work being completed in Geography books. Children are exposed to a progressive, spiral curriculum that builds on prior knowledge and results in sustained progress, with pupils progressing to each new year group knowing more, and remembering more.