Geography Lead
I am Mrs Knight, and I am proud to be the Geography Lead at Willow Farm Primary. Geography matters deeply to me because it helps children understand the world they are growing up in. It encourages curiosity, questions and wonder, while helping pupils make sense of places, people and environments near and far. Through geography, children learn about the beauty of the natural world, how landscapes are shaped, and how human choices can affect our planet. It gives children the skills to read maps, explore their surroundings and understand global connections. Most importantly, geography helps children see that they are part of a wider world and that their actions matter.
Geography at Willow Farm
At Willow Farm Primary, we believe that geography is essential to helping children make sense of the world around them. We want our pupils to marvel at the beauty of natural landscapes, understand how our environment is changing, and recognise how their choices can impact people and places near and far.
We aim to nurture children’s curiosity about the world, encouraging them to explore their local area while also developing a global perspective. We want children to be inspired to travel, to question what they see, and to truly understand the places they visit. Through geography, we seek to open their eyes to how the world works and how they can care for it.
Our geography curriculum is designed to be knowledge-rich and highly engaging. It offers pupils a wide range of meaningful learning experiences that build on what they already know. The curriculum is carefully sequenced, giving children regular chances to revisit and build on their knowledge, so that their understanding develops and deepens as they move through school.
I am Mrs Knight, and I am proud to be the Geography Lead at Willow Farm Primary. Geography matters deeply to me because it helps children understand the world they are growing up in. It encourages curiosity, questions and wonder, while helping pupils make sense of places, people and environments near and far. Through geography, children learn about the beauty of the natural world, how landscapes are shaped, and how human choices can affect our planet. It gives children the skills to read maps, explore their surroundings and understand global connections. Most importantly, geography helps children see that they are part of a wider world and that their actions matter.
At Willow Farm Primary, we believe that geography is essential to helping children make sense of the world around them. We want our pupils to marvel at the beauty of natural landscapes, understand how our environment is changing, and recognise how their choices can impact people and places near and far.
We aim to nurture children’s curiosity about the world, encouraging them to explore their local area while also developing a global perspective. We want children to be inspired to travel, to question what they see, and to truly understand the places they visit. Through geography, we seek to open their eyes to how the world works and how they can care for it.
Our geography curriculum is designed to be knowledge-rich and highly engaging. It offers pupils a wide range of meaningful learning experiences that build on what they already know. The curriculum is carefully sequenced, giving children regular chances to revisit and build on their knowledge, so that their understanding develops and deepens as they move through school.
At Willow Farm Primary, geography supports children in developing a secure understanding of the world, its people, places and environments. Through geography, children learn to appreciate the diversity and beauty of the Earth, understand how landscapes and environments are formed and changed, and recognise how human actions influence the world at local, national and global scales.
Geography encourages curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world. Children explore their local area before broadening their understanding to the United Kingdom, Europe and the wider world. They are supported to ask questions, investigate places, and develop a deeper understanding of both familiar and distant locations.
The geography curriculum at Willow Farm builds knowledge progressively, allowing children to revisit and strengthen key concepts over time. Learning is structured so that pupils develop a growing understanding of geographical concepts, vocabulary and skills as they move through the school.
Through geography, children develop knowledge in:
Locational knowledge
- Naming and locating countries, continents and oceans
- Understanding the position and significance of places in the UK, Europe and the wider world
Place knowledge
- Understanding similarities and differences between places, including their human and physical characteristics
Human and physical geography
- Identifying key physical features such as rivers, mountains, coasts and climates
- Exploring human features including settlements, land use and economic activity
- Understanding how human activity can both positively and negatively affect the environment
Geographical skills and fieldwork
- Using maps, atlases, globes and digital mapping to locate places and identify features
- Using and understanding geographical vocabulary, symbols and keys
- Observing, measuring, recording and presenting geographical information
- Carrying out fieldwork in the local area to deepen understanding of place
By the time children leave Willow Farm Primary, they have developed a secure foundation of geographical knowledge and skills, alongside a curiosity about the world and an understanding of how people and environments are connected.