At Newlands, our geography curriculum engages and enthuses children, stimulating curiosity and wonder about the world. Pupils develop the knowledge and skills to explain how the Earth’s physical and human features are shaped, interconnected and change over time. We nurture fascination with diverse places, people and cultures, alongside a growing sense of care and responsibility for the natural and human environment.

How we deliver our curriculum

Geography is taught in blocked units, with one unit each term. Each unit begins with retrieval practice to revisit prior learning and help pupils make connections across skills and knowledge. Lessons use a range of representations (photographs, maps, atlases and globes) and build progressive subject-specific vocabulary through modelling and questioning. Units are sequenced from the National Curriculum and develop key strands: locational knowledge, place knowledge, and human and physical geography, including opportunities for fieldwork and enrichment visits where appropriate.

How we support everyone to learn

Geography at Newlands is planned so that all pupils can access and succeed, whatever their starting point. Learning is broken into manageable steps with regular modelling, supportive visuals and guided talk to help pupils use and understand key vocabulary. We use retrieval and pre-teaching where needed, and provide scaffolds such as word banks, sentence stems, simplified texts, adapted map work or additional adult support. Pupils who need more challenge are encouraged to apply their knowledge to new contexts, justify ideas using evidence from sources, and take on leadership roles in paired and group fieldwork.