Our approach to the Geography curriculum is through a topic based approach, underpinned by the HCAT accelerated learning approach to teaching and learning.

The key concepts, principles and themes have been developed from the National Curriculum into a range of progressive knowledge and skills through which our pupils are helped to grow and develop to succeed in 21st century Britain. This knowledge and skills based curriculum allows a creative way of teaching and learning, enabling us to move away from discrete lessons into a more meaningful, engaging, topic based approach.

The Geography curriculum we offer is designed to meet the needs of all our pupils. It is rich, varied, imaginative and ambitious and meets the needs of individual learners and can easily be adapted for pupils with additional needs.

Geography is not taught discreetly, but is fully embedded across the whole curriculum. To provide all of our pupils with the skills required for life in the 21st Century, our Geography curriculum is rich and varied to promote engagement.

The Accelerated Learning Cycle, based on the work of Alastair Smith, is applied in all lessons. It stems from the idea of creating a supportive and challenging learning environment. The cycle has active engagement through multi- sensory learning, encourages the demonstration of understanding of learning in a variety of ways and the consolidation of knowledge.

A gather, skills, apply approach to the planning and delivery of lessons is taken across school to ensure our pupils develop a deep understanding of specific skills and are able to apply these in a range of situations.