Vision

Are you the next Sir David Attenborough? Through the teaching of Geography, we aim to instil a love of enquiry and investigation in our children. We want to motivate our pupils to take an active role in understanding, contributing to and protecting the world as they grow up. Our geography curriculum is designed to inspire excitement, creativity and critical thinking about the world, equipping our children with the knowledge and skills they need to make their own way in it.

Geography at The Hyde

At The Hyde School, our geography curriculum is designed to provoke children’s curiosity and provide meaningful opportunities to explore both the physical and human aspects of the world. The curriculum is carefully planned and sequenced so that new knowledge and skills build progressively on what has been taught before. Clear end points are identified, ensuring that pupils understand what they need to know and be able to do in order to achieve them. Our geography curriculum reflects the school’s local context by addressing common gaps in pupils’ knowledge and skills, while being rooted in a shared and informed understanding among school leaders of the essential knowledge and skills pupils need to make the most of future opportunities, responsibilities and experiences. Through this approach, geography at The Hyde plays an important role in supporting social mobility and addressing social disadvantage.

How We Deliver the Curriculum

We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and the National Curriculum for Geography. As a school, we have developed our own clear progression of geographical knowledge, skills and key vocabulary. From the Early Years, children explore the environment around them through purposeful use of the outdoor area and school grounds. As pupils move through the school, they begin to study their local area and compare it with other regions and countries. Children develop their ability to draw and read maps and build a secure understanding of key geographical vocabulary related to both human and physical features. As their learning progresses, they explore human geography in greater depth, including settlements and land use, as well as physical geography topics such as climate zones, rivers and volcanoes.