History and Geography, Fishponds Church of England Academy

History

At Fishponds CE Primary School we follow the Lighthouse Schools Partnership History Curriculum.

The History curriculum including the progression can be found in the History Curriculum document.

Fishponds Museum

To celebrate our History learning in Term 2 we opened Fishponds Museum for our families to attend. We loved sharing our learning with our community.

Geography

Intent

To enable the children to develop their cultural understanding and respect.
To provide our children with a broad range of new experiences which enrich their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
To develop links with the local community and Bristol as a city.
To develop the children's understanding where in the world locations are.
To develop the children's geography skills including map work and fieldwork.
To develop the children's geographical knowledge.
To develop the children's knowledge of human and physical geography.

Implementation

Topics are taught as phases on a 2 year rolling programme.
Golden threads are used to promote links between areas of study horizontally across each year, vertically across the school and diagonally across subjects and years.
Children's knowledge of the world's continents, countries and oceans is build up through map work, with each child having a map they add to throughout their time at school.
A skills progression is implemented across the school focusing on place, patterns and communicating geography.
Geography knowledge and skills are revisited repeatedly across each year group.
Knowledge organisers are used in class and for home learning, displaying key knowledge for the children to learn.

Links to Our Locality

Our history and geography curriculums include a number of links to our locality of Fishponds and Bristol as a city.

Exploring Social Justice

In Term 1 2020, we did a whole school theme topic of 'They Made a Difference'. KS1 explored everyday heroes and local heroes. LKS2 studied Malala and her fight for education as well as the rights of women in the UK in the past. UKS2 studied the civil rights movement and debated around whether Edward Colston's statue should be removed or kept. Explore some of our outcomes below.