Our scheme encourages:
- A strong focus on developing both geographical skills and knowledge.
- Critical thinking, with the ability to ask perceptive questions and explain and analyse evidence.
- The development of fieldwork skills across each year group.
- A deep interest and knowledge of pupils’ locality and how it differs from other areas of the world.
- A growing understanding of geographical terms and vocabulary.
Kapow Primary’s Geography scheme of work enables pupils to meet the end of key stage attainment targets in the National curriculum. The aims align with those in the National curriculum, where attainment targets are organised within four strands:
- Locational knowledge
- Place knowledge
- Human and physical geography
- Geographical skills and fieldwork
Within these strands, Kapow Primary’s Geography scheme has a clear progression of skills and knowledge across each year group. The Progression of skills and knowledge shows how children's learning is underpinned and developed, "bumping into" previous learning before moving on to new challenges as they move through the school from Saplings to Oaks.
This ensures that children are continuously given opportunities to revise and build on their previous learning, helping children to make links, to draw on their own experiences and to support learning retention within the long term memory.
Lessons incorporate various teaching strategies from independent tasks to paired and group work, including practical hands-on, computer-based and collaborative tasks. This variety means that lessons are engaging and appeal to those with a variety of learning styles. Differentiated guidance is available for every lesson to ensure that all pupils can access learning, and opportunities to stretch pupils’ learning are available when required.
Through the Kapow scheme of work, we aim to build an awareness of how Geography shapes our lives at multiple scales and over time. We hope to encourage pupils to become resourceful, active citizens of our community who will have the skills as geographers to contribute to and improve the world around them.