Geography

As geographers at Worth Valley, our children will develop a sense of belief that they can achieve anything they want to. Geography is pivotal at Worth Valley as children understand the many opportunities and careers available to them, not just in Keighley but in the UK and beyond. Becoming an ambassador school with the Yorkshire Dales National Park has been crucial in optimising the experiences that all children receive. All children will experience multiple visits to areas of outstanding natural beauty in the Yorkshire Dales throughout their time at Worth Valley. We aim to prepare our pupils for life by teaching them to understand how physical and human geography interact and affect our daily life. We also invite parents to attend a fully funded residential in the Yorkshire Dales, which helps to inspire not just the children in our school but whole families too.

At Worth Valley, children are encouraged to develop a greater understanding and knowledge of the world, as well as their place in it. The children will learn about their local environment and where they live in Keighley, before extending this knowledge to explore the UK, Europe and the wider world. In Year 6, during ‘The Travel Plan’ topic, children will learn to map out various routes around their local area. This gives our children the skills, knowledge and confidence to successfully navigate around their local area in preparation for becoming more independent at secondary school.

The knowledge we give our children during geography lessons at Worth Valley inspires them to have curiosity and understanding of the complex world in which we live, appreciating differences and celebrating our richly diverse world!

The national curriculum for geography aims to ensure that all pupils:

Develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places, including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes.
Understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time.
Are competent in the geographical skills needed to collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes.
Interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

Geography vocabulary progression

Geography progression of skills

Geography intent-implementation and Impact plan