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How to design an effective geography curriculum

Strip your geography curriculum back to basics and focus on the fundamentals that will help all pupils succeed. Emma Lennard explains how to introduce and build on these key skills across the primary curriculum, and suggests ways to make best use of your local area to provide your pupils with all of the skills they’ll need to become successful geographers.

Last reviewed on 5 February 2025
School types: All•School phases: All•Ref: 50215
Contents
  1. Watch our on-demand talk 
  2. Resources for this talk 
  3. Emma's recommended further reading and resources 
  4. Meet our speaker 

Watch our on-demand talk 

This video offers 'bite-sized' CPD for teachers, with accompanying handouts/resources.

It represents the speaker's role and approach (and where relevant, their school/trust's approach) at the time it was recorded, but still serves as both a source of inspiration and practical tips for you to use in practice.

Please note: any commercial providers, products or resources mentioned in this talk, and relevant links here, are on the speaker's own recommendation and should not be considered an endorsement by The Key.

 

Resources for this talk 

How to design an effective geography curriculum: key points PDF, 250.0 KB
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How to design an effective geography curriculum: note-taking template DOCX, 66.4 KB
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Emma's recommended further reading and resources 

Meet our speaker 

Emma Lennard is 1 of the founders of the Primary Knowledge Curriculum (PKC) and an independent primary curriculum adviser. She has sat on DfE