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Geography Learning to make a world of difference This report draws from visits to 91 primary and 90 secondary schools (including one special school) in England between 2007 and 2010. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of geography in these schools and assesses the challenges faced by the subject today. Geography was flourishing in a minority of the schools visited and was under pressure in the rest. The report describes the value of learning geography and what needs to be done to reverse its decline. It builds on the 2008 Ofsted report, Geography in schools: changing practice. Age group: 4–18 Published: February 2011 Reference no: 090224  Contents Executive summary 4 Key findings 6 Recommendations 7 Part A. Geography in schools 8 Background 8 Geography in primary schools 9 Achievement 9 Teaching geography 12 The geography curriculum 18 Leadership and management of geography 19 Geography in secondary schools 22 Achievement 22 Teaching geography 24 The geography curriculum 31 Leadership and management of geography 33 Part B. 35 Literacy and geography 35 Speaking and listening 35 Reading 37 Writing 38 The importance of fieldwork 41 The contribution of geography to citizenship 45 Notes 50 Further information 51 Publications by Ofsted 51 Websites 51 Annex: Schools visited 52 Primary schools 52 Secondary schools 55 Special school 58 Executive summary This report draws on evidence from visits by Ofsted inspectors to look at geography in a sample of 91 primary and 90 secondary schools (including one special school) from 2007 to 2010. It builds on Geography in schools: changing practice published by Ofsted in 2008. Part A reports on achievement and the quality of provision in geography in the primary and secondary schools visited, and identifies key issues which schools need to consider as they continue to develop their curricula. Part B deals with particular features of geography in schools which inspectors addressed in the course of the survey. Duri