At St Leonard’s Catholic Primary School, we intend to inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. We equip children with geographical skills to develop their knowledge through studying places, people and natural and human environments. This seeks to deepen the understanding of the Earth’s human and physical forms and processes. We also intend for children to develop geographical skills: collecting and analysing data; using maps, globes, aerial photographs and digital mapping to name and identify countries, continents and oceans; and communicating information in a variety of ways.
The curriculum is designed to develop knowledge and skills that are progressive, as well as transferable, allowing the children to build upon their growing knowledge of the world to help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes. Through our teaching, we intend to provoke thought, questions and to encourage children to discover answers to their own questions through exploration and research to enable them to gain a greater understanding and knowledge of the world and their place in it. Our curriculum is designed to give the children a seamless transition to the KS3 curriculum as the design of our primary curriculum was designed alongside our secondary colleagues within our Trust.
