Our Approach to Geography
At Higher Failsworth Primary School, we believe geography is a vital part of the curriculum, helping children to explore, appreciate, and understand the world around them and how it is changing. Geography develops curiosity about places and people, encouraging children to recognise the connections between the physical and human environment.
Through geography, children gain insight into diverse cultures and traditions, learning respect, tolerance, and empathy for others. The subject contributes to their cultural, social, moral, and spiritual growth as they reflect on different ways of life and their own role in a global community.
Geography also equips children with essential skills. They learn to investigate their own locality, use maps, atlases, and digital tools with confidence, and interpret geographical data. These skills prepare them for a future where the world is increasingly interconnected, with opportunities to live, work, and travel widely.
Enquiry lies at the heart of the subject: children are encouraged to ask questions, collect evidence, and form reasoned conclusions about the world around them.
Finally, our geography curriculum places strong emphasis on sustainability and global responsibility. Children learn about the impact of human activity on the environment and how they can make a positive difference, however small, to the future of our planet.
Aims
The aims of geography are to enable children to:
- Develop secure knowledge of their local area, the wider world, and the physical and human processes that shape them.
- Foster curiosity, wonder, and a lifelong interest in the world around them.
- Understand and respect cultural diversity, recognising what it means to be responsible citizens in a multicultural and interconnected world.
- Appreciate the importance of sustainability and recognise their role in caring for the planet as global citizens.
- Build strong geographical skills, including the use of maps, atlases, globes, digital tools, and fieldwork to investigate places and environments.
- Formulate questions, carry out enquiries, interpret evidence, and evaluate information to reach balanced conclusions.
- Communicate geographical understanding using appropriate vocabulary, maps, and a range of media.
You can find out more about our Geography curriculum here