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Geography
‘In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.’
Pearl S Buck
Understanding and connecting the diversity and challenges of our world is at the very heart of our curriculum at St Nicolas. Children at St Nicolas learn to be responsible global citizens, who understand the complexities of our World and what we can learn from it. Geography stitches together many curriculum areas, helping children see beyond their immediate context: it gives them people and places to read about, journeys and settings to write about, enquiries to pose and answer, and data to calculate and analyse, all while learning in their classroom.
Through fieldwork and comparing different localities, children will develop powerful knowledge which helps them connect and empathise with others from diverse backgrounds develop their reasoning and enquiry skills, and understand their place in the world as social beings and global citizens.
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We are ambitious in the locational knowledge children are taught, which includes where places are in comparison to each other, as well as more in depth knowledge about the human and physical features of areas. Throughout the school children develop their map skills to locate key places, capital cities and physical features within the seven continents and many countries across the world. Children in Year 6 then apply this knowledge to plot and describe Darwin’s journey around the world.