Geography

Geography teaching offers opportunities to:

• Stimulate children's interest in their surroundings and in the variety of human and physical conditions on the Earth's surface;
• Foster children's sense of wonder at the beauty of the world around them;
• Help children to develop an informed concern about the quality of the environment and the future of the human habitat and thereby enhance children's sense of responsibility for the care of the Earth and its people.

In the Junior School Geography is about:

• Studying places and themes at different scales from local to national in the United Kingdom and overseas, and investigating how people and places are linked and how they relate to the wider world.
• Studying how and why physical and human features are arranged as they are in a place or environment, and how people are influenced by and affect environments.
• Focusing on geographical questions like: What is it like? How did it get like this? How and why is it changing?
• Developing and using geographical enquiry skills, including fieldwork and IT skills, geographical terms, making and using maps, and using photographs.