Geography
Subject Leader: Mr S Torrie
At Hermitage Primary School, our long term vision for Geography for all children is the following:
- 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
- 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
- are competent in the geographical skills needed to:
- collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
- interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
- communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
Click here to see the National Curriculum for Geography.
At Hermitage Primary School, Geography is taught as a discrete subject with a range of cross curricular links. There is a balanced approach to teaching both skills and knowledge in accordance with the National Curriculum. Our initial focus is on giving younger children a rich understanding of their own locality and then progressing to learn about other counties, regions, countries and continents as they move through the school. We take a child centred approach to this, and move gradually outwards across the globe as children develop their geographical understanding.
Pupil Voice
"I like looking at maps because they tell us things about different places."
"It was very exciting learning about earthquakes and volcanoes. I told my mum and dad about them when we were having tea! I’m glad I don’t live by a volcano but farmers like the soil because it grows good crops."
"I’ve never had to plan a route to somewhere before."
"It was good planning a route to London from school."
"The team project about a region of the UK was hard but lots of fun and I think our team did well."