GEOGRAPHY

We teach Geography as part of our challenge packs, each unit allows children to build on their previous knowledge and skills. Children are encouraged to ask geographical based questions and are able to use evidence they find to answer them and make sense of their findings.

Expectations

• All classrooms will have a map and/or globe that is accessible to the children.
• The children will be aware when it is a Geography focussed lesson (lesson to be labelled Geography).
• All children will take part in a range of fieldwork throughout their time at school.
• Through our challenge packs we will teach the Geography of a range of continents and compare countries from different continents.
• Each year, the skills taught in Geography will progress from the previous years, allowing children to build on and develop their prior skills and knowledge.

Geography Milestones

By the end of EYFS:

Children will begin to make sense of the world around them through a range of personal experiences.

Explore and create maps of familiar places (school and the local area).

Identify features of a familiar place (physical and human).

By the end of KS1:

Children will have an understanding of where they live and their local area.

Begin to use geographical vocabulary.

Be able to locate and name the continents, oceans and some countries on a world map.

Children will be able to locate and name the four countries of the United Kingdom and their capital cities.

By the end of LKS2:

Name and locate counties, cities and regions and identify human and physical features.

Understand: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.

Locate the world’s countries on a map. Locate major cities and environmental regions.

Explain the significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle.

Discuss how natural disasters impact physical and human features.

By the end of LKS2:

Name and locate counties, cities and regions and identify human and physical features.

Understand: climate zones, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle.

Locate the world’s countries on a map. Locate major cities and environmental regions.

Explain the significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle.

Discuss how natural disasters impact physical and human features.

By the end of UKS2

Locate the world’s countries on a map with increased confidence and accuracy. Locate major cities and environmental regions.

Explain the significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and times zones (including day and night).

Identify physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers) of the countries, regions and cities of the UK, understand change over time.

Use the 8 points of the compass.

Locate Greece on a map and describe features.

Compare two countries from different continents (including South America).

The big concepts of geography are:​

Place
Space​
Scale​
Interdependence​
Physical and human processes
Environmental impact​
Sustainable development​
Cultural awareness
Cultural diversity​

Concepts are important in geography as they  draw out the links between processes and ideas. ​