Geography

At Manadon Vale, we aim to provide a high-quality geography curriculum to inspire, challenge and engage children to understand more about the world around them. Teaching key concepts such as location, mapping, place, physical and human features through different contexts allows us to continually build on these concepts ensuring clear and rich progression. We seek to inspire in children a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people which will remain with them for the rest of their lives, equipping them well for further education and beyond.

The PE curriculum and vision

Geography at Manadon Vale is taught using an enquiry-based approach. The key knowledge and skills of each blocked topic are mapped across the school, ensuring that knowledge builds progressively and that children develop skills systematically. Relevant existing knowledge is checked at the beginning of each topic using our knowledge organiser as a tool to identify, “What do I already know that will help me?”. Children can use this organiser to ask questions that specifically interest them about the topic. This ensures that teaching is informed by the children’s starting points and that it takes account of pupil voice, incorporating children’s interests. Tasks are selected and designed to provide appropriate challenges to all learners and to develop independent working and confidence, in line with the school’s commitment to inclusion.

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