Welcome to our Geography page! 

Our Geography Curriculum Intent

We are creating the informed global citizens of the future, teaching children to think, speak and write geographically. Being a geographer means engaging with real world places, people and environments as well as contentious issues and difficult decisions. Our curriculum provides a set of skills and a body of knowledge that contributes to geographical analysis, understanding and explanation, and to an ability to make informed judgements. 

The high-quality geography education delivered at Swansfield inspires children to develop curiosity and a sense of awe and wonder about the world and its people to prepare them for a life time of learning. 

Geography at Swansfield moves from the ‘local’ to the global and uses as its starting point (throughout the curriculum) children’s lives and knowledge. 

Our Geography curriculum is packed with interesting and relevant knowledge about the children’s immediate surroundings as well as the wider world. It grows coherently and sequentially from their first understandings of their sense of place in the world in the EYFS to a more detailed and extensive framework of knowledge of  the world by the time they leave our school. 

Our curriculum gives pupils a deepening understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. Over time, children should begin to see the connections and interdependence between these processes. These links inform their understanding of how the world works and of how humans affect and are affected by the environment.  

We equip our children with a knowledge of diverse places, people and environments whilst placing the greatest emphasis on investigating our local area and finding out how Alnwick’s geography helps to write a narrative about our town’s heritage, its character today and its future. This enables our children to develop a real sense of who they are and what makes Alnwick and Northumberland unique and special. 

Our Geography curriculum has been carefully planned to introduce and build on some key concepts in Geography – space, place and scale, human and physical geography and the interaction between them.  

Our curriculum builds up competence in geographical enquiry – the application of skills in observing, collecting, analysing, mapping and communicating geographical information.

In the links below you can find our Becoming a Geographer document which shows how early Geographical skills build through the Understanding the World Early Learning Goal and our Curriculum Overview for our 2 year rolling programme through KS1 and KS2.