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Geography
Why teach geography?
Geography is a subject packed with excitement and dynamism. It helps children to make sense of the world around them, and arouses their curiosity in places and people. It helps open up students' awareness to what is around them both locally and globally, and the connectedness of people, regions and cultures within those places.
Geography helps children to understand how, and why, places are changing, and to better imagine, predict and work towards, likely and preferred futures.
Underpinning all of this is a strong spatial component - through the importance of location - and also ‘real world’ experiences of fieldwork. Good fieldwork allows children to explore and find things out for themselves which, as well as developing Geographical skills and knowledge, also aids general motivation and self-development.
At Sandbrook we want our children to be excited by Geography and begin to ask, and seek answers to, fundamental Geographical questions such as:
- Where is this place?
- What is it like, and why?
- How, and why, is it changing?
- How does this place compare with other places?
- How and why are some places connected?
- What could/should the world be like in the future?
- What can we do to influence positive change?
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Latest News
Geography
- 3C Exploring Our Local Environment
- 3C Exploring Our Local Environment
- 3C Protecting the Rainforests
- 3C Protecting the Rainforests
- Y4 children have created their own models of rivers and the water cycle
- Samuel has been teaching children and staff about the Caves of Chinhoyi.
- Year 2 making messy maps with objects from the classroom.
- Year 2 have been learning the names and locations of the 7 continents.
- Gaia visit to The Riverside.
- 3C gathered, and presented, data during fieldwork in the locality.
- 3C identified human and physical features in the local area, and used digital mapping tools.
- Have you tried our whole school curriculum projects page for work?
- Y5 Geography Earthquakes lesson 1 has been added to the Online Learning page of the school website.
