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At Rivers Primary Academy, we are geographers!
We want our pupils to love geography and we inspire them to aspire to be cartographers, town planners, conservationists or weather forecasters. We want our pupils to remember their geography learning and embrace the geographical opportunities they are presented with. Through the planning and delivery of our curriculum, we aim to challenge and stimulate their intellect, enabling them to achieve high academic standards.
Our curriculum develops pupils' aspirations so that they strive to be the best that they can be. We carefully plan the subject knowledge, skills and vocabulary, coupled with specific Aspire character virtues and learner skills, so that our pupils have the tools to be successful in learning and in life. Our geography curriculum promotes curiosity and a love and thirst for learning. It inspires future-thinkers, innovators and problem solvers in an immersive environment that stimulates curiosity and supports high-quality learning, allowing each and every learner to fulfil their potential.
Our geography curriculum has been carefully built and the learning opportunities and assessment milestones for each year group crafted to ensure progression and repetition in terms of embedding key learning. The progression of knowledge and understanding in geography is carefully planned for and is clearly evident. Children are encouraged to lead their own learning, asking and answering their own questions about the world around them. Key knowledge is identified for each unit and is explicitly taught through carefully well-sequenced lessons. Effective assessment strategies are used to inform the planning and teaching of geography. Teachers introduce children to a range of age-appropriate geography terminology, and they use this confidently.
We aim for all of our children to leave Rivers Primary equipped with the history skills and knowledge that will enable them to be ready for the curriculum at KS3 and for life as an adult in the wider world. Each geography lesson starts with a retrieval low-stakes quiz, formed of a question from the previous lesson, previous unit and previous year. These are used to inform the teacher about the impact of the current learning and demonstrate pupils’ retention of previous knowledge. Assessment of the children’s work and their acquisition of knowledge is continual throughout the unit and can be taken in multiple forms such as written work and engagement with disciplinary content. At the end of the unit, children complete a post-learning assessment which is made up of some multiple choice retrieval questions and some longer written response questions to allow children to demonstrate their understanding. Reviews in geography include reviewing pupils’ work, learning walks and pupil and staff voice. All of this information is gathered and reviewed. It is used to inform further curriculum developments and provision is adapted accordingly.
At Rivers Primary Academy, we Inspire to Aspire.