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Kilchreest N.S.Geography

Curriculum overview

Our Geography Plan outlines the knowledge, skills and attitudes that the staff of Kilchreest N.S. hope to impart to the students. The plan highlights the importance of (i) exploration of the child’s immediate local environment and (ii)encouraging the child to become an active agent in his/her learning. The time allocated for geography each week is as follows:

· Infants 45 minutes

· 1^st – 6^th class is 1hour.

· Time can be blocked and discretionary time may be used for trails or tours. The geography curriculum is divided into 3 strands and the table below outlines the strand units covered in each class.

Scheme of work from infants to second

Teachers in these classes will cover each strand and strand unit every year, choosing different topics to cover the strands and strand units.

Strand	Strand unit
Human environments	· Living in the local community- My family and community - Homes and shelter - People at work- People at play - School (infants only) · People and places in other areas
Natural environments	· The local natural environment · Weather · Planet earth in space
Environmental awareness and care	· Caring for my locality

Two year scheme of work for 3^rd to 6^th classes

Year 1

Year 2

Environmental awareness and care

- Caring for the environment

Environmental awareness and care

- Environmental awareness

Natural environments

- Rocks and soils

- Weather, climate and atmosphere

- Local natural environment

- Planet earth in space

Natural environments

- Land, rivers and seas of my county

- Local natural environment

Human environments

People and other lands

- E.U. country

- Non – E.U. country

People living and working in the local area and people living and working in a contrasting part of Ireland

- Natural environmental features and people

Human environments

People and other lands

- E.U. country

- Non – E.U. country

People living and working in the local area and people living and working in a contrasting part of Ireland

- People and communities

- People at work

- Settlement – homes and other buildings

- Transport and communications

County, regional and national centres

Each strand is to be covered each year and due to the spiral nature of the curriculum overlapping will occur, however, we have made a selection of objectives, as outlined above, from each unit to be covered every second year to minimise repetition.

Due to our prime location at the foothills of Sliabh Aughty we have many natural resources that can be investigated and explored each year. It is hoped to complete 2 trails each year taking in the surrounding area.

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