Our Geography and History lessons are delivered using Kapow schemes of work.  In both subject areas, a creative, investigative approach encourages children to explore, discuss, reason, draw comparisons and understand how our world today has been shaped, as well as thinking about how the choices we make now might affect the planet as we journey further into the 21^st century.

We are a Green Flag “Eco School” and our work on the environment and sustainability is woven through our whole curriculum.

We use a range of sources of information, such as maps, aerial photographs and atlases in geography, and a broad selection of primary and secondary sources in history.  We often link our class trips, visits and workshops to our history and geography topics, for example visiting areas of geographical interest, to acquire the skills of interpretation and enquiry, or visiting museums and historic sites to provide a more immersive experience of each historical period studied.

We are fortunate enough to have fantastic school grounds, which means we can take much of our learning outdoors, either on our own site or slightly further afield into the Ditchley Estate, or Heythrop Park Estate, both of which kindly support us by allowing us to use areas of their grounds and  access suitable spots for field study.

The tables below show how our units of history and geography are arranged into either an annual cycle, or a 2 or 3 year rolling cycle in mixed year group classes.