Scholes Junior and Infant School
Geography Substantive Knowledge Progression
Locational
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Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Key Stage 3
Compare different countries and cultures.
To compare life in the UK with life in other countries.
Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the UK and it’s surrounding areas. (Big City Lights)
Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans. (Nuturing Nature)
Name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land-use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time (UK Geographical study)
Name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time. ( Mountains and Rivers)
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on South America concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities (South America).
Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities (Alliances).
Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctice and Anatartic circle, the prime/Greenwich Meridian and the times zones (including day and night). (Polar Regions)
Extend their locational knowledge and deepen their spatial awareness of the world’s countries using maps of the world to focus on Africa, Russia, Asia (including China and India), and the Middle East, focusing on their environmental regions, including polar and hot deserts, key physical and human characteristics, countries and major cities
Place Knowledge
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Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places
They talk about features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying a small area of the United Kingdom (Where is Scholes School?)
Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country (Nuturing Nature)
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom. (Yorkshire)
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region in a European country. (Denmark)
Year 5 Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region within South America. (South America)
Year 6 understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a reigon of Antartica. (Polar regions)
Key Stage 3
Understand geographical similarities, differences and links between places through the study of human and physical geography of a region within Africa, and of a region within Asia
Human and Physical Geography
Red denotes knowledge from the National curriculum taught within another area/subject
Identify daily weather at school.
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
To learn about jobs in the community including farming.
To know some of the different jobs a farmer does.
Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK (Weather)
Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles. (Nuturing Nature)
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: volcanoes and earthquakes (Active Planet)
Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use (Stone Age to Iron Age)
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: rivers, mountains and the water cycle. (Mountains and Rivers)
Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use (Egyptians)
Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts (Farming – comparative study)
Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water. (Invasions)
physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes
Year 6
Key Stage 3
human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water (Polar Regions)
Understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in: physical geography relating to: geological timescales and plate tectonics; rocks, weathering and soils; weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present; and glaciation, hydrology and coasts human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and change landscapes, environments and the climate; and how human activity relies on effective functioning of natural systems