At Holy Trinity and St Silas, our main focus within the geography curriculum is to foster curiosity, promote and deepen geographical knowledge, skills, and understanding, and nurture a sense of responsibility and care towards the environment. It is our intention that our geography curriculum supports children to develop our school 3Cs of care, courage and cooperation.

Care:                                                                                                                                      

  • Contrasting localities are chosen to reflect the diversity of our community, enabling pupils to see themselves within the geography curriculum, whilst also considering the lives of others. This supports children to become knowledgeable, tolerant, caring geographers.
  • Children develop an understanding of the importance of showing care for the world around them through sustainability, learning about the environmental impact of human and physical geography within key units such as Brazil, Rivers and Tectonics.
  • The curriculum supports children to appreciate the work within our local community by engaging in fieldtrips linked to termly topics. Fieldtrips within the local area support children to value and care for their locality of Camden, understanding the impact that they can have.  
  • Children are taught to care for people, places and cultures through geographical skills and knowledge (place, locational and physical and human geography).
  • Children are supported to share their own feelings about what may be happening in the world, what change they would like to see and how they can help achieve this as caring citizens of the world.
  • Lessons are contextualised to make them purposeful and meaningful, ensuring that children understand the relevance of the geography curriculum and how it can explain and impact the world around them. 

Courage:                                                                                                  

  • Through the teaching of subject-specific vocabulary and opportunities for focussed talk during lessons, children are empowered to: courageously share ideas and ask questions; make connections; and interpret evidence so as to develop their understanding about the world and its people.
  • Children are supported to take part in class debates and discussion, giving them the opportunity to: apply and consolidate key geographical vocabulary; have the courage to explain, debate and justify; and articulate their knowledge and points of view with increasing confidence.
  • Geography aims to create a sense of action and advocacy in children as courageous geographers, supporting them to understand the relationship between physical and human processes. Children will start to appreciate the necessity to enact change.

Cooperation:                                                                                    

  • The geography curriculum is built around key geographical enquiry questions. Answering these complex, open-ended questions requires children to work together, so as to collect, analyse, and present data, encouraging collaboration.
  • Children are provided with opportunities to cooperate with each other in order to carry out practical fieldwork and enquiry, working together to delegate tasks, share resources, and communicate and express their findings or data. These memorable learning experiences give the children a sense of scale, locality and the world around them by using London as their classroom.
  • Children are taught to work both individually and collectively to communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including maps, numerical and quantitative data and written and verbal communication.
  • Children are taught to understand their role within paired and group work and given opportunities in lessons to develop their cooperation skills.

For further information about our geography curriculum, including its implementation and impact, or to see an overview of topics taught, please see the related documents section of this page for our whole school geography curriculum map.