In addition to our generic pedagogies, which are:

• Flexible groupings

• Revisiting prior learning from lessons

• Retrieval of prior knowledge in different contexts

• Visualisers for modelling

• I do, we do,you do

• Chunking lesson

• Dual coding 

• Strategies for remembering

• Sequential graphics

• Working walls (consistent subject specific design)

• Explicit teaching of vocabulary. (E.g. Use of visualiser / demonstrate methods and techniques).

We also have the following subject specific pedagogies for Geography:

•  Teacher to start the lesson with a brief activity from the ‘Geography Basic Skills’ activity folder appropriate for their cohort.

• Within each unit, the teacher will make children aware of which domain within Geography is being addressed e.g. Knowledge of Location, Place, Human & Physical Geography, Geographical / Fieldwork Skills.

• Teacher refers to A1 maps regularly when teaching, reinforcing the location and names of continents and oceans, key lines of latitude e.g. Equator, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Artic Circle and longitude e.g. Prime Meridian.

• Teacher to make use of appropriate concrete resources both within the classroom and onsite eg. Compasses - Orienteering.

• Regular representation of the subject within ‘Low Stakes Friday Curriculum Quiz’ to reinforce knowledge, skills and understanding and aid cognitive load. Teachers guided by subject lead’s key questioning document.

• Formative assessment approaches are applied at all times in each lesson however, the final lesson in the unit, is an ‘end of unit assessment lesson’.

• SEND adaptations are made for pupils who need them.