Geography and History
Geography and History are primarily taught through an enquiry-based approach. Each half term, the year groups cover a new theme; this is delivered to the children through a key question to promote curiosity and a clear focus for the children’s learning.
Examples of the key questions include:
· What makes someone significant who is worth remembering?
- What makes someone significant and who is worth remembering?
- Can disasters have a positive impact?
- How would my life be different if there was still mining in Gosforth?
Within geography and history lessons, children use their skills of being a geographer or a historian to gather evidence which will support them in answering the enquiry question.
The children’s answers and their application of the concepts we have studied will help us to assess their ability as a historian or geographer.
The key concepts are covered across each year group, and these are also progressive throughout the school.
Geography
- Location and Place
- Cause and Effect
- Change
- Planning and Decision Making
History
- Chronology, Cahnge and Countinuity
- Cause and Consequence
- Historial Significance
- Using Evidence
Local links to Gosforth, Newcastle and the Northeast are incorporated across the topics.
