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.

Michael Palin, b.1943

Actor

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

Latitude, longitude and STEAM Day

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

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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...

Continents, Oceans and more

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....