Buckingham Park Primary School

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Primary Geography Quality Mark

What is the Primary Geography Quality Mark?

The Primary Geography Quality Mark (PGQM) celebrates high quality geographical learning and leadership, and is therefore highly valued by school leaders both nationally and internationally. The award is seen as a key strategy for raising the quality of geography in primary schools and has been driving school improvement in geography for almost 20 years.

 

The Silver level PGQM award recognises a school’s commitment to ‘the implementation of whole school approaches that support excellence in geography’. At Buckingham Park Primary School, our geography curriculum offers opportunities for  inter-cultural understanding, local fieldwork, knowledge of environmental issues, and dilemmas connected with sustainability.

We offer an enquiry-based approach to engage and stimulate our children, and we place high value on using real-life issues to promote children's knowledge and understanding.

 

Feedback from the Geographical Association assessors about Buckingham Park Primary School’s achievement and the geography curriculum we offer:

"Pupils have many opportunities to participate in fieldwork and out of classroom experiences such as the visit to the Natural History Museum to learn about volcanology. From the early years pupils visit different locations in the Shoreham area to learn about the place they live in. Visits to Pulborough Brook when they study rivers; the South Downs when they study National Parks or Rampion Wind Farm where they learn about sustainability provide useful real-world experiences of the geography they are studying in the classroom."

"Pupils have the opportunity to explore a range of maps, including Ordnance Survey and digital maps to locate places and features. Atlases and globes are used frequently to develop their locational knowledge of a range of places around the world... There is a clear focus on developing subject specific vocabulary and pupils are frequently exposed to geographical data which is used to develop their graphicacy skills."

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