Being a Geographer at Hambleton Primary Academy
Whole School Curriculum Intent
At Hambleton Primary Academy we work together to ensure all our children achieve academic success whilst remaining healthy, happy and emotionally aware young people ready to move to the next stage of their education.
Subject Intent:
Through Geography at Hambleton Primary Academy children will be equipped with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
Subject Specific Aims:
Geography at Hambleton Primary Academy aims to ensure that all children;
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Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes.
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Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time.
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Are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
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Collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes.
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Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
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Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
What do we learn in Geography?
Providing further support in Geography:
Being ambitious in Geography
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