Geography
Subject Vision
‘Woodfield academy is a place where our day to day mission is to ignite a passion to learn and a desire to succeed in an environment that nurtures all.’
It is a place where learners are taught through our curriculum, to make informed choices and to be responsible for their own actions, through the teaching of four core values; Compassion, Respect, Resilience and Responsibility.
Our geography curriculum aims to engender excitement, creativity and critical thinking about the world. Ultimately, we want our students to enjoy and love learning about geography by gaining the knowledge and skills to understand and make sense of the world, by organising and connecting information and ideas about people, places, processes and environments; To be able to explain how the earth’s significant features and places, at different scales, are interconnected and change over time is at the core of our curriculum. Therefore, our geography curriculum is underpinned not just by key concepts such as: place and space, but interdependence and sustainability – the interdependence between human and physical geography.
In Key Stage 3 particularly, the programme of study is thematic; focusing on current affairs such as weather and climate, population and energy; facilitating our students to expand their understanding of what it means to be a ‘global citizen.’
Geography is taught as part of a half termly carousel focusing on the knowledge and skills outlined in the National Curriculum and is designed to build upon prior geographical knowledge. The emphasis is very much on equipping our students with the skills to unpick and question previously unfamiliar terms, processes and concepts. It enables our students to gain ‘real life’ experiences e.g. from using digital maps of the local area in KS2 to comparing the similarities and differences in environments and communities through to debating world issues in KS3 such as: China’s One Child Policy and the Antarctic Treaty.
We ensure both literacy and numeracy are a focus by exposing the students to a range of data and articles. To develop our students’ cultural capital, we explore a range of issues from different countries and cultures with the aim of developing our students’ understanding and respect for the experiences of people living in a variety of countries and situations around the world.
“Geography is a subject which holds the key to our future”. Michael Palin
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