At Hanslope Primary School, our curriculum is built from the National Curriculum and sequenced through a two-year rolling programme. This ensures that all pupils experience a broad, balanced and carefully planned curriculum, regardless of whether they begin a phase in Cycle A or Cycle B.
Our curriculum is organised around clear golden threads. These golden threads help pupils make meaningful links across units, subjects and year groups. In Geography, pupils revisit important geographical concepts over time so that their knowledge becomes deeper, more connected and more secure.
Across the school, pupils develop both substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge. Substantive knowledge is the key geographical content pupils learn, including places, locations, environments, physical features and human processes. Disciplinary knowledge is how pupils learn to think and work like geographers, including asking geographical questions, interpreting maps, analysing patterns, conducting fieldwork, collecting data and drawing conclusions.
Vocabulary is planned carefully so that pupils are able to communicate geographical understanding with increasing accuracy and confidence.
Subject Leader: Mrs Harriet Lovegood