Welcome to Geography
I am Mareanna Ingram. I have been teaching at the Maharishi School for 25 years. Both my daughters came to Maharishi School from Reception, where I believe they received a wonderfully holistic education.
My subject is geography – probably one of the most exciting subjects to teach. It is a great joy to share this journey of discovering the world anew with each year group. We explore the world through maps and many other resources. Our first question is always, “Where am I?” As part of our school ethos we always relate what we learn to ourselves. geography provides wonderful opportunities to find our way in the world. We play games like the jelly baby game and have debates about population structures around the world that involve us all, and best of all we get to go out in the world and learn about settlements and rivers in ‘the field’.
The new geography curriculum has shifted the focus from memorising facts to “thinking like a geographer”. This fits in very well with our whole school approach of synthesis and analysis in every subject. Pupils learn from the very start how to look at the world with an enquiring mind, helping them to make informed choices in their own lives as well as performing well in the subject - incidentally also making geography a very desirable subject to have studied when applying for further and higher education.
