Geography

In SASM, pupils are taught that geography is the ‘why, where and how things happen around the world’. Students are encouraged to learn through curiosity, inspiration and the explicit, expert teaching of human and physical geography. Throughout their time in SASM, pupils are taught to make links between events and phenomena around the world, whilst making it relevant to them as well as establishing threads,revisiting topics such as mountains and rivers, which enables them to deepen their knowledge and understanding. They are engaged in a variety of ways including physical map/atlas work, interactive geographical applications and quizzes, exposure to language, cultural differences and similarities, cross-curricular links, curriculum clubs as well as trips and visits.

Geography Curriculum Overview

To enhance pupils’ learning and cultural capital, every child at SASM has the opportunity to participate visits to:

• Kew Gardens (Year 3),

• a local walk, linked to a history topic (Year 3) 

• Thames Boat Trip (Year 5)

• Isle of Wight residential (Year 6)

• Local parks visit (Year 6).

Curriculum Club - Bonjour

In 2024, a new after school curriculum club commenced. Its aim is to inspire and to engender engagement in both geography and a modern foreign language (MFL) - with a focus on France/French-related subjects such as francophone countries around the world, the physical geography of France, why learning an MFL is relevant and valuable, as well as supporting the SASM language curriculum. 

Geography - Fieldwork skills in the local area through School on The River trip (Year 5)