At Atlas Academy, we aim to provide our children with essential geographical knowledge that deepens their understanding of physical and human concepts and processes, fostering their curiosity and fascination for the world we live in. We want to encourage our children to ‘think geographically’ with a thirst for knowledge celebrating our uniquely diverse school and local community, connecting its place to the wider world in which they live.
At Atlas, we follow Primary Knowledge Curriculum (PKC) for Geography.
The PKC Geography curriculum is knowledge rich. This means the knowledge children will gain has been carefully specified, ordered coherently and builds over time. As children work through our geography curriculum they will know more, understand more about the world around them. A good geographical understanding relies on firm foundations of knowledge and skills. The skills our curriculum develops, like the knowledge, are specified, ordered coherently and progress over time. This curriculum structure helps pupils to deepen their understanding of physical and human geographical processes, fostering curiosity and fascination for the world we live in.
Approaching primary geography with a knowledge rich focus means that the knowledge children will be taught has been identified, in each year group, in each unit and in each lesson. As children work through the curriculum they will know more and understand more about their local area, the UK, Europe and the World. This rigorous approach, covering and going beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum, leaves nothing to chance, building geographical knowledge and understanding in a way that builds on children’s prior knowledge, allowing them to make meaningful connections and gain an understanding of how our world is connected.