Geography

Geography curriculum

Geography at Pippins is built around three key threshold concepts: investigating patterns, investigating places and communicating geographically . From Key Stage 1, pupils develop secure locational knowledge of continents, oceans and the countries of the United Kingdom, while beginning to compare places and understand basic physical and human features. Children use maps, atlases and globes, simple compass directions and aerial photographs, and engage in practical fieldwork to observe and describe their local environment . The curriculum ensures that pupils build vocabulary and knowledge progressively, starting with their immediate locality before broadening their understanding to national and global contexts.

As pupils move through Key Stage 2, the curriculum deepens to include Europe, North and South America and a range of contrasting regions, with a strong balance between physical and human geography . Units explore rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, climate zones and biomes, as well as settlements, trade, migration and global connections. Fieldwork remains central, with children using sketch maps, plans, graphs and digital technologies to investigate their surroundings. By Year 6, pupils are confident geographers who can interpret a range of geographical sources, use grid references and Ordnance Survey symbols accurately, and form well-reasoned conclusions about contemporary environmental and societal issues.

For full details, please see the uploaded curriculum documents .