GEOGRAPHY INTENT 

At Carter’s Charity School, through our geography curriculum, we aim for the children to think, talk and work as a geographer. This means they can ask and answer questions about places and how people experience them using maps, atlases, research and fieldwork.

Our curriculum has been carefully structured to give pupils a broad range of learning experiences, knowledge and skills with a clear progression. The children will regularly improve their abilities in reading and understanding maps and atlases, along with having frequent opportunities to create maps of the world around them.

Our curriculum is designed to provide our children a deep understanding of the subject specific language they need to describe, question and discuss the world, as well as their place in it. The children will ask questions about the world around them and use fieldwork to discover the answers for themselves. They will apply their knowledge by using what they have discovered to compare places and their impact on the lives of the people in them; by making predictions and holding debates about the future of the world; and by trying to make improvements to their own locality.

We aim to produce well- rounded individuals by providing our children with opportunities to expand their cultural capital and experiences of the world.