Welcome to Geography at St. Thomas's

At St Thomas's, geography helps children flourish by promoting global awareness, fostering an appreciation for diverse cultures, environments, and communities. It develops their spatial understanding, critical thinking, and enables them to make informed decisions about sustainable practices and their role as global citizens.

At St Thomas's, we ensure that our geography curriculum provides our children with the chance to have a curiosity about the wider world. Our geography curriculum is closely aligned with our curriculum 'where are we going? who are we going to meet?'. We want our children to find learning of the wider world engaging and full of enjoyment, so we ensure we deliver quality first geography lessons in order to help them achieve this. We are aware our children may lack experiences and opportunities outside of school, so we ensure to deliver our children the chance to have these experiences where appropriate. 

The National curriculum outlines that geography is divided into different key areas: location and place knowledge, human and physical geography, geographical skills and fieldwork. As the children progress through St Thomas's, their knowledge and understanding will continue to develop. In order to deepen the children's geographical understanding, we have introduced golden threads. Our golden threads are used throughout all the stages.

At St Thomas's, we believe all of our children are capable of being Geographers, and our staff strive to deliver lessons which will allow the children to achieve this.

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