Our geography curriculum is knowledge rich: knowledge is valued, specified, well sequenced and taught to be remembered. The content of the curriculum has been carefully chosen by experts, and has been sequenced in a meaningful way that enables children to make connections and progress from unit to unit, term to term and year to year. Information is presented in small steps; it is clearly explained and well-modelled.

Children have opportunities to discuss, ask and answer questions, explain their learning and work independently. The geography curriculum also enables children to build interesting and meaningful connections across other subjects such as English, science and history. So that all children have the opportunity to fulfil their potential, the curriculum is ambitious yet achievable to all with carefully produced scaffolding and support in place where necessary. 

From EYFS through to year six, four key threads are revisited over time: Spatial Sense, Britain, Europe and The World. As pupils progress through the school, aspects of local geography are interwoven into the curriculum: this includes learning about farming and the Fenland environment. The first thread to be studied is Spatial Sense as pupils in Nursery explore the features of where we live. Through these threads, children develop: locational knowledge, place knowledge, knowledge about environmental / physical / human geography, geographical skills such as using maps and globes, and collect first hand evidence through fieldwork. This careful selection of sequential topics supports the development of both cultural capital and British Values.