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Geography
History and Geography at Bruce Grove Primary
History and Geography Rationale
History has always been held in high regard at Bruce Grove Primary School. The history curriculum draws from and makes full use of the immediate and wider local area, enabling children to develop a deep understanding of the rich history of their locality. Topics are informed by the national curriculum and are sensitive to children’s interests, as well as the context of the local area. The history curriculum at Bruce Grove is carefully planned and structured to ensure that current learning is linked to previous learning and that the school’s approaches are informed by current pedagogy.
The Geography curriculum is designed to ensure that teaching equips pupils with knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments, together with a deep understanding of the Earth’s key physical and human processes. As pupils progress through the school, their growing knowledge about the world helps them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments. Geographical knowledge and skills are progressive and are sequenced to provide the framework and approaches that provide explanation of how the Earth’s features at different scales are shaped, interconnected and change over time.
In both subjects, we are following the Haringey Educational Partnership (HEP) curriculum, which is a programme of study designed to create a cohesive approach between all Humanities subjects within the curriculum.
Curriculum Overview
| Autumn 1 History | Autumn 2 Geography | Spring 1 History | Spring 2 Geography | Summer 1 History | Summer 2 Geography |
Y1 | Transport over time | Tottenham, UK Counties and cities | Toys through the Ages | UK weather and seasons | Homes Through the Ages /Landmarks in Tottenham
| Map Making |
Y2 | Great Fire of London | Settlement: village towns cities | Famous People: Samuel Pepys, Mary Seacole, Florence Nightingale
| Hot and Cold areas of the world -similarities and differences
| Holidays in the past | 7 continents and 5 oceans - Barnaby Bear |
Y3 | Stone Age and the Neolithic Revolution HEP BK – The Stone Age
| Farming HEP BK - Agriculture | Ancient Egypt HEP Bk - Ancient Egypt | Rivers: Thames and the Nile HEP BK - Rivers | Cradles of Civilisation – Mesopotamia HEP BK – Cradles of Civilisation
| Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes HEP Bk - Mountains |
Y4 | Ancient Greece HEP Bk – Ancient Greece | Climate, biomes and vegetation HEP Bk – Climates and Biomes | The Roman Empire HEP BK – The Roman Empire | Mediterranean temperate and tropical climates HEP BK – The Rhine and the Mediterranean
| Ancient Britons and Roman Britain HEP BK – Roman Britain | Land use Patterns and Changes over time HEP BK - TBC |
Y5 | Islamic Civilisation HEP Bk – The Round City of Baghdad
| Trade – distribution of natural resources HEP Bk - Why is California so thirsty? | Angles, Saxons and Scots - HEP BK – Anglo Saxon Britain | Coasts, rivers and the Water Cycle Tottenham v Norfolk HEP BK – Coastal Processes and Landforms
| The Struggle for the Kingdom of England | Polar climates, oceans and seas HEP BK - Oceans |
Y6 | The Mayans
| Rainforests: North and South America | The Battle of Britain | Compare/contrast UK / Europe / North America | London/Tottenham an immigration through time 19th to 20th century
| Similarities and Differences between London and Pendarren, Wales |