Curriculum coherence across the key stages: geography
Well hello there and welcome to update #029!
When we’re considering coherence across the key stages, it’s helpful to know about the content and approaches that are being taught in different phases.
We can ask:
what is the journey for a pupil as they learn about a subject in their time at school?
what are the concepts and big ideas that they will understand as they learn about a subject over the key stages?
How does what is taught in primary link to what they will be learning in secondary?
One way is to have a brief overview of the programmes of study for geography, for example. This means in primary that we have a broad outline of the programmes at key stage 3 and even more important that secondary colleagues are familiar with what pupils have learnt in primary.
Another way is to have some insights into what subject leaders have to say about the development of their subjects in their phase. What some schools are doing is to take a look at the subject networks on Myatt & Co.
In primary geography, for example, there’s Hannah Durnin talking with Rachel Higginson about how she implements the subject in her school. And then we can compare with an example from Kate Stockings in conversation with Steve Willshaw about how she underpins her work with high quality texts in geography at key stage 3.
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Until next time
Mary