Our Vision

“Hope: building for a brighter future”

Geographically literate children will know and understand the physical and human elements of the world came to be, and how these connect with one another. Children will develop a respect and admiration for the world, its people, its places and its diversity that will inform their interactions throughout their lives, promoting hope for a better future for the world and everyone within it.

Curriculum Aims

At North Star, we aim to:

• equip pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes.
• use high quality texts alongside geography instruction so children can read about geography, being exposed to a wide and rich subject-specific vocabulary.
• celebrates the local area while allowing children to learn about diversity and differences in our country and world.
• have high expectations of the children and encourage deeper thinking.

We also want our children to:

• develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places (both terrestrial and marine), including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
• understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time
• be competent in the geographical skills needed to:
  • collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
  • interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.