You can travel the seas, poles and deserts and see nothing. To really understand the world, you need to get under the skin of the people and places. In other words, learn about geography. I can’t imagine a subject more relevant in schools. We’d all be lost without it.
A high-quality geography education should inspire in pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Teaching should equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge, understanding and skills provide the frameworks and approaches that explain how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time. National Curriculum for Geography, purpose of study
What Have Year 1 Been Up To?
Kapoor Class and Goldsworthy Class have been working collaboratively, creatively and critically in all areas of their learning. Here we are bringing the story of 'The Tiger Who Came To Tea' to life, through colourful puppets, tiger masks and writing invitations to our...
A ‘Fantastic Time’ at the Maritime Museum!
Year 2 visited the Maritime Museum in Greenwich today and had a jolly good time. We have been learning about Christopher Columbus in class and discussing the advantages and disadvantages of his voyages. In the museum today, we got to see models of ships, seafarer's...
Our Day Trip To The Mudchute Farm!
Year 1 Kapoor Class visited the Mudchute Farm today. It was a warm and sunny day. We walked from the Mudchute Station and were eager to explore the farm. As children walked through the muddy narrow hills with their learning partner, they smelt fresh flowers and animal...
Our week in class
by the whole class This week, we learnt a lot about computing, French, English, P4C and mountains - Syeda Computing We used Canva to design a poster for a religious event. In RE, we learnt that religions use their buildings for chats, helping and singing as well as...
Vicious Van Gogh Vikings
For Van Gogh class' spring trip, we went to the National Maritime Museum and were able to complete an amazing Viking work shop. In this workshop the class were able to observe different Viking artefacts such as coins and Jewellery. All of the pupils were able to...
Raiding and Trading – Riley Class Vikings Trip
Today, we had a wonderful time at the National Maritime Museum. These are some of the artefact replicas that we investigated. What do these tell you about the Vikings? Here are some pictures of us deciding what to trade in Baghdad. Finally, we explored the big map...
Latitude, longitude and STEAM Day
by Tabgila and Liam At the end of last week, it was STEAM Day at our school. We could go to different classes to do different activities, and a lot of us enjoyed going to Mr Norman's class to watch a lamb's eye being dissected. Not everyone went because they felt a...
A Fun Week in Year 6
By Melissa and Akram Today in the whole school we did steam day. Steam day is when there are lots of activities and you can go to any one of them. There was fire, balloon rockets, experiments with skittles, oranges and many more. . It was really fun and here is a...
Trip to The Imperial War Museum!
By Fabiha and Michael James Trip! This week our class and Hadid class went on a trip to the Imperial War Museum we got there by DLR and the Tube it was a good experience. We learnt what the soldiers used and what they went through. We did a worksheet where we had to...
Continents, Oceans and more
In geography this week, year 3 have been singing to retrieve what we already know about the world's continents and oceans. We realised that our lessons in year one and two have taught us so much, and we are ready to continue building on this as the year progresses....