Geography award for school (From Salisbury Journal)

Geography award for school

3:27pm Wednesday 18th November 2009

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CHILDREN and staff at a Salisbury school are celebrating after the quality of geography taught at their school was recognised nationally.

Sarum St Paul’s Primary School was one of six schools across the country to receive the Silver Primary Geography Quality Mark, a strategy supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

The scheme aims to raise the quality of geography in primary schools, and the Silver award recognises the implementation of whole school approaches that support excellence in geography.

One of the school’s strengths highlighted by the award was ‘that there is a developing and exciting vision of geography across the school’, which is led by teacher Lindsay West.

“What I have realised is that geography is embedded in virtually everything we teach,” she said. “We are at the start of an exciting, developing journey.”

She has recently been appointed as a primary geography champion for the south west through a government-funded action plan for the subject, which aims to help it retain its place among popular curriculum areas.

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