Geography
We can see the importance of geography transferred through verse into our students’ learning. At Ellesmere Park High School, our geography curriculum engenders excitement, creativity and critical thinking about the world that will equip young people to make their own way in it. We aim to create the very best geographers and inspire our learners to become global citizens and lifelong learners. We challenge students to think, act and speak like those working in the field would. We vary topics between human and physical geography, using substantive and disciplinary knowledge, to provide a varied appreciation of the ideas, skills and topics in this subject. At EPHS, we extend from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract, making greater sense of the world by organising and connecting information and ideas about people, places, processes and environments. Our curriculum ensures students develop geographical skills, embedding cartographic, graphical, numerical, statistical and literacy.
The curriculum provides opportunities for collaborative working as well as independent learning. Students are taught the skills, knowledge and vocabulary needed to effectively explain and understand geographical issues in the past, present and future. The geography curriculum is designed to support and challenge all students, appropriate to their age and ability and inspire and motivate the next generation of leading thinkers, scientists, geographers and policy makers. Geography at EPHS aims to work with complex information about the world, including the relevance of people’s attitudes, values and beliefs. Our curriculum enables children to develop knowledge and skills that are transferable to other curriculum areas which can and are used to promote their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Overall, we place the highest value on students enjoying and achieving in the subject – this should be the purpose of all learning in a school environment; to keep students wanting to know more, to study further and engage with their world in an informed and confident way.
Geography curriculum aims -
Our aim in geography is to teach a broad and challenging curriculum to inspire a love of the subject inside and outside the classroom. We aim to encourage students to enjoy their learning and to achieve as students that enjoy and achieve leave the classroom being validated and wanting to study further. We follow the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3 but overall maintain breadth of curriculum and application to places both local and worldwide. At Key Stage 4, we aim to develop students’ investment in the subject whilst acknowledging the demands of the exam syllabi and the importance of student achievement. Our major curriculum aims are:
- Broad
- Preparation for next level
- Inspirational
- Challenging
- Developing
- Relevant