Geography
At Our Lady’s Catholic Primary our aim is to ignite in all our pupils a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.
Through the teaching of geography, we want to ensure our children think like geographers and talk like geographers: develop their questioning; acquire skills through organising and analysing geographic information; make interpretations and connections, and to develop a greater understanding and knowledge of the world and their place in it.
Our aim is for our children to understand the connections between humans and the physical geography of the planet on which we live and how one can affect the other. They will have the opportunities to understand how their habitat, and the world around it, has changed over time and how technology and mankind has impacted on and shaped God’s world to what it is today.
This is all underpinned by our drive to enable all learners to experience the beauty, awe and wonder of God’s world and to develop an awareness of their divinely-ordered place in it as human beings: the pinnacle of God’s creation and responsible stewards of it. Our Stewardship does and must reflect our understanding that our planet is irreplaceable. We want to provide opportunities for our children to be advocates of positive change in the world in which we live; the generation who needs to make a difference.
Catholic Social Teaching
The Geography curriculum at Our Lady’s provides many opportunities for children to develop their knowledge and understanding of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, and to action that commitment through good works and words that show we live our faith in our community as a force for good.