Geography @ English Martyrs'

"The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.”  

Barack Obama. 

At English Martyrs’ Catholic Primary School, we strive to provide our children with the opportunities to become global citizens, deepening their interest and wonder in exploring their own place in the world. We believe it is important to provide ‘Living Geography’ concerned with children’s lives, their futures and their world. Through our curriculum our children will develop a sense of their world, beginning at with a local context and progressing to a national and global scale; understanding the interconnections between how people and the environment interact. Fieldwork is an essential part of our curriculum as children experience hands on and ‘real life’ geography around them. Pupils learn to think critically, think spatially, use maps, visual images and new technologies, to analyse and present information. They will have an adept understanding of their responsibilities within their own society whist also having a coherent insight into sustainability of a dynamically changing world.