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.
AFS Geography Curriculum Statement