At Hallam Primary School, we have designed our Geography curriculum with the intent that it will inspire our children with a curiosity, fascination and appreciation of the world around them. It will equip them with a diverse knowledge and understanding of people, places, natural, human and physical geography. The curriculum progression will expand outwards from the immediate locality to the global but with a comparison and contrast to the touchstone of the local at each step. The curriculum will engage our children and facilitate and inspire them to become enquiring, resilient, independent, challenging thinkers and active global citizens with the confidence to use, and build on, their cultural capital, learning and experiences - both inside and outside of the classroom.

We will deliver a curriculum that:

• Will create confident geographers, with deep-seated learning and skills, that prepare them for the journey beyond primary school.
• Is scaffolded by excellent teaching practices.
• Allows children to develop key geographical skills, including the gathering, communication and critical analysis of data and sources of information.
• Is aspirational for pupils and promotes higher order analytical and creative thinking, in considering real world features, problems and solutions.
• Will challenge children to research information and think for themselves, give reasoned answers, work independently, be socially aware of local and global geographical issues, and develop good resilience and attitudes to learning.
• Creates fun, enjoyable, engaging, memorable learning experiences.
• Gives children the opportunity to consider and apply cross curricular learning.