Geography

Geography Rocks at Firs Farm Primary School.

Geography can inspire children to think about their own place in the world, their values, their rights and responsibilities to other people and to the environment.

At Firs Farm we encourage children to celebrate diversity and we love learning about other cultures. Geography underpins much of the school curriculum and teaches many skills of enquiry and research.

Our Reception children enjoy learning about the world around them with role play about transport, farming and the moon. In the second half of the year they begin to recognise their local area with visits to the Post Office and Local Park.

Throughout the school children learn about physical geography with in-depth studies of specific natural phenomena (volcanoes being a favourite!) We study people and places through a range of comparative schemes.

Children love working with globes, atlases and maps, they become competent at drawing and interpreting maps; also they locate places and zones on blank maps.

As part of our commitment to being a vibrant and inclusive centre for learning, we engage with a specialist Opening Worlds (OW) curriculum to systematically build up our vocabulary, knowledge of the world and understanding of the interdependence of human and physical features on our planet.

The Firs Farm Geography curriculum comprehensively covers the National Curriculum whilst incorporating our local Firs Farm Weltands to provide children with many enrichment opportunities.