Our Vision....

Geography and Agriculture

..is for all the school children in the UK to have a basic knowledge of where their food comes from and how it is produced from an early age.

'He who has bread may have troubles.

He who lacks it has only one.'

Old Byzantine proverb

Geography looks at the extent of man's needs for natural resources both locally and globally and how agriculture fits into providing these needs and the consequences of doing so in terms of the impact on the global environment.

In studying the earths environment and the relationship of humans to this environment both physically and culturally, Geography has many integral links with agriculture.

A better understanding of UK Agriculture as a major provider and user of resources will help pupils better understand the earths environment and our relationship with it. Some of the geography units can easily encompass the local countryside and agriculture which should be encouraged as it helps pupils to build up the overall place of agriculture on the earths environment which will better equip them to tackle the resource problems of the future.

Our aim is to use the fantastic resource of UK Agriculture and the countryside for teaching of relevant Geography topics. The videos provided are linked to the national curriculum and many lessons have ideas and suggestions to link them to learners 'PERSONAL LEARNING & THINKING SKILLS'

Each lesson has a WALT (What are we learning today) and a WILF (What I'm Looking For) - like below. These are taken from the QCA Schemes of Work which I have used as a common point of reference throughout.

Each lesson also comes with relevant Teaching Notes

Each lesson also has the links to National Curriculum Reference + Curriculum Opportunities