Geography 2026
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“Bringing nature into the classroom can inspire curiosity and a love for the diversity of life on Earth, while encouraging children to care for and protect it.”
David Attenborough
Our Vision
At Mossgate, geography inspires children to explore, question and understand the world around them. We want pupils to develop a curiosity about places and people, an appreciation of the natural environment, and a strong sense of responsibility for protecting our planet.
As a school awarded the Distinction Eco-Schools Award, sustainability and environmental care are at the heart of our geography curriculum. We encourage children to see themselves as global citizens who can make a positive difference locally and globally.
How Geography Is Planned, Sequenced and Organised
Our geography curriculum is carefully planned and coherently sequenced to ensure children build knowledge and skills progressively from Early Years to Key Stage 2. Geography is taught through engaging units, enriched with practical experiences, discussion and outdoor learning, ensuring all pupils can succeed.
Learning begins, in Nursery, with children’s immediate surroundings and gradually extends to the wider world, based on their individual experiences.
Key geographical concepts such as place, location, environment and sustainability are revisited and deepened over time.
Knowledge is built step by step, allowing children to make connections between physical and human geography.
Map skills, fieldwork and geographical vocabulary are taught progressively across year groups.
Pupil voice shows that children enjoy geography and can confidently talk about what they have found out. They explain their learning using geographical language and share what they have discovered about the world around them, both in the classroom and through fieldwork.
Learning Beyond the Classroom
Fieldwork is central to geography learning and is planned in line with National Curriculum expectations that pupils “use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area.”
In the Early Years, children begin their geography journey with local walks, noticing landmarks, buildings, and natural features. These experiences help them describe their immediate environment and talk about similarities and differences — laying the foundations for later geographical thinking.
In Key Stage 1, pupils develop their locational and place knowledge by planning and following a route from school to the local library. Along the way, they observe human and physical features, use simple maps and directional language, and begin to understand how people use and shape their local environment.
In Key Stage 2, geography becomes more investigative. A highlight of this is the Year 4 river study, introduced this year, where pupils explore river features, processes, and the importance of water in shaping landscapes. This hands-on experience supports National Curriculum aims for pupils to understand key aspects of physical geography and strengthens their enquiry and fieldwork skills.
