Trips:
Local Park Study - fieldwork
Local Orienteering
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Gunnersbury Triangle
Skills:
Geographical Enquiry
The Southfield Geographer
•to confidently explain scale and use maps with a range of scales
Enrichment experiences:
Geography Week
Topic Based Workshop
Weather Station – wildlife area
Forest School
JASS Award
•to choose the best way to collect information needed and decide the most appropriate units of measure
•to make careful measurements and use the data?
•to use OS maps to answer questions
•to use maps, aerial photos, plans and web resources to describe what a locality might be like
Physical Geography
•to describe the physical features of a desert
•to describe how some places are similar and others are different in relation to their human features
•To use the 8 points of a compass
•To accurately use a 4 and 6 figure grid reference
•to recognise key symbols used on ordnance survey maps
•to create sketch maps when carrying out a field study
Geographical Knowledge
•to recognise key symbols used on ordnance survey maps
•to name the largest deserts in the world
•to identify and name the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn as well as the Arctic and Antarctic circles?
•to understand and explain how the time zones work
Human Geography
•to give an extended description of the human features of different places around the world
•to map land use with their own criteria
•to describe how some places are similar and others are different in relation to their physical features
Knowledge:
Locational Knowledge
To locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
To locate significant lines of longitude and latitude (Greenwich Meridian/ time zones)
To locate biomes on a world map
To name and locate key deserts, rivers and mountains on a world map
Physical and Human Geography
Human geography, including:
To understand and explain types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals
To identify the human impact of global warming and flood risk
Physical geography:
To describe and understand key aspects of biomes and vegetation belts
To describe and understand the key features of a river
Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
To use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
To use the eight points of a compass, four-figure grid references, symbols and key of Ordnance Survey maps.
To use fieldwork to observe, measure and record the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.
To compare how the local area has changed over time using OS maps and digital software
Reception:
Farm, tractor, field, harvest, crops, seeds
Transport, journey, vehicle, goods, distance, bus, car, train, taxi, tram, ferry, plane
Danger, safety, rules, reflect, visible. Transport, roads, tuk-tuk, Thailand, Bullet Train, Japan, miles per hour, tracks
Sailing boat, ship, car ferry, container ship, sailor, captain, gondola, gondolier, canal, river, sea, ocean Technology, horse and cart, carriage, motor, penny farthing, astronaut, past, present, future.
Steam, coal, power, chimney, funnel, Rocket, speed, railway.
North Pole, South Pole, Equator, Arctic, Antarctic, Ernest Shackleton, Endurance, crew, dangerous, challenging.
Year 1:
Above Aerial
View Atlas
Backwards
Behind Below Building
Close to Closer than Closest
Coast
Compass
Continent
Country
Direction
Earth East
Equator
Familiar
Far Forwards
Further than Furthest
Gaelic Globe
Identity
In front
Information
Key Kingdom
Label Left
Locality
Location Map
Mountain
Navigate
Near Nearby
Next to
North
North Pole
Ocean
Perspective
Place Right
Year 2:
3D globe
Accurate
Adapt Climate
Coast
Compass
Continents
Destination
Direction
East Equator
Europe
Explorer
Globe
Human features
Information
Inhabited
Island key
Label
Landmarks
Left Location
Loch Map
Migration
Munro
Navigate
Nordic
North Ocean
Ordnance
Survey
Physical features
Represent Right
Route Sami
people
Scale Scandin
avia
Show Site
South
Symbol
Year 3:
Agriculture Arable
Area of Outstanding
Natural
Beauty Army Bay
City Climate
Coast Coastline
Construction
Conurbation
County
Dense population
Density
Distribution
Economic
Eight-point
compass Energy
Estuary Evidence
Export Fog
Food Footpath
Forest Graph
Great Wall of China
Grid reference
Hamlet Hill
Horizontal Human
Human features
Import Indus River
Indus Valley
Civilisation
Infrastructure
Key Lake
Location Map
Mapping
Military
Moor Mouth of a
river Ordnance
Survey
Pastoral Peninsula
Physical features
Population
Public toilet Qin Shi
Vocabulary
Year 4:
Adriatic Sea Aegean Sea
Agriculture Animal life
Athens Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Balkan Countries
Balkans Baltic
Baltic Countries Baltic Sea
Barrier Basalt
Belfast
Black Sea Borough
Bushmills Canterbury
Caspian Sea Cathedral
Caucasus Mountains
Chalk Cliffs climate
Coastline Colosseum
Column Cave Continental
climate Conurbation
Counties Crop Cyrillic
Dover East/Eastern
Ecclesiastical Ecosystem
Equator Erode Erosion
Eruption Estuary
Financial Flooding Giant
Giant’s Causeway
Government
Gulf Stream Heritage
Human features
Human Geography
Independence Inhabit
Ireland Kimono Kremlin
Kyoto Lagoon Land of the
Rising Sun Landforms
Latin Latitude
Legend Limestone Linen
Lines of Latitude
Lines of Longitude
Lisbon Lisburn London
Londonderry Longitude
Lough Neagh Madrid
Year 5:
Aboriginal People Aconcagua
Adelaide
Altitude Analyse Andes
Annotate Appalachians
Arable farming Australia
Banking Biome Brisbane
Cairns Captain James Cook
Christchurch Climate
Co-ordinates Colonise
Colony Commonwealth
Commonwealth Maori
Contours County Crops
Marshland Dales Darwin
Data Deciduous Deciduous
forest Biodiversity Density
Desert Distance Earthquake
East Anglia
Eastern hemisphere Eiger
Elevation Equator Erosion
Estuary Ethiopia
Ethiopian Highlands
Evolution Fault line Fenland
Fertile Fieldwork
Friction Geographer
Gradient Graph Grassland
Greenwich Haka Himalayas
Hongi Humber Bridge
Ice mummy Inca Indian Ocean
Industry Information Invasive
species Kilimanjaro Kiwi Bird
Large scale Latitude Lava lake
Lines of Latitude Lines of Longitude Local Councillor
Location Longitude
Machu Picchu Mammal
Maori Marsupial
Mathematical Matterhorn
Melanesia Melbourne
Year 6:
Affordable Agriculture Air Pollution
Algae bloom Allergy Altitude Anchorage
Antarctic Antarctic Circle Antiglobalisation Antigua and Barbuda
Arable Farming Arctic Arctic Circle
Asthma Axis Bahamas Barbados Belize
Biodiversity Biome Borough
British Summer Time Business Caravan
Carbon Cartographer Climate Change
Co-ordinates Coastal defence
Colonialism Commodity
Communication Conflict Coniferous
forest Consumer Deforestation
Consumption Costa Rica Cuba Cultural
Cultural flow Culture Cyclone
Deciduous Forest Deforestation DEFRA
Degrade Densely Populated Desert
Desertification Development Discard
Distortion Diverse Dominican Republic
Economic Economy El Salvador
Emissions Emperor Engineering Exploit
Export Failed Crop Favela Fly-tipping
Food Insecurity Food Security Frequent
Fresh Water Geological Global Justice
Globalisation Globalisation
Development Goods Government
Greenwich Mean Time Grenada
Guatemala Haiti Heavy Rainfall Event
Homo Sapiens Honduras Identity
Import Indicators Industry Infestation
Integrate Integration Interact
Interaction Investment Irrigation
Jamaica Labour Labour Politics
Landfill Latitude Life Expectancy
Literacy Skills Litter Local Council
Longitude Low-lying Manufacturing
Map Projection Merchant Meridian
Mexico Mexico City Mississippi River
Transport, icebreaker, dog sled, slide, runners, crampons. Inset locally relevant vocabulary in addition to; near, next to, further, far, past, over, alongside, transport.
Community, teachers, doctors, nurses, shop workers, delivery drivers, rubbish collectors and other locally relevant
professions Spring, summer, autumn, winter, temperature, warmer, cooler, sun, rain, snow, wind Autumn, cooler, darker, deciduous, evergreen, brown, gold, yellow, red, dark, light, dry
Satellite Seasons
South
South Pole
Symbol Title
Union Valley
View West
World
Symbols
The British Isles
The United Kingdom Uninhabited Valley
Weather West World map
Huangdi
Railway River
River basin/drainage
basin
River Ganges River
source
Road Rural Services
Settlement Shop
Sketching
Sparse Sparse
population
Strait Stream Study
Suburban
Symbols Taj Mahal
Temperate Climate
The Alps
The Gulf Stream Tourism
Town Trade Transport
Tributaries Urban Vegetation
Vertical Village Watershed Waterway
Marshland Mediterranean
Mediterranean Sea
Milan Mild Minerals
Monsoon Mount Elbrus
Mountain range
Nationalists North Sea
Northern/North
Olive oil Olives Origami
Partition Peninsula
Physical features Pier
Population Prime Meridian
Produce
Republic Rome Samurai
Scale Settlement Shrubs
Sierra Nevada Skyline
Soil South/Southern,
Stalactite Stalagmite
Steppe Stour Survive
Temperature Thames
The Alps The Apennines
The Danube The Gulf Stream
The River Po
The Ural The Volga Tide
Titanic Tokyo
Topography
Tough Tourist Transport
Transportation
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Tsunami Underground
Unionists Urbanisation
Vegetation Venice
Volcano Weather
Weather climate
West/Western
Westgate Dover
Micronesia Migrate Mining
Mont Blanc Mount Everest
Mount Kilimanjaro Mountain
National Park New South
Wales Oppose Midlands
Ordnance Survey Orientation
Otzi Parallel Pastoral farming
Peak Penal Colony Canberra
Perth Plate Boundary
Polynesia Population Prime
Meridian Qualitative
Quantitative Data Range
Relationship Relief Map
Relief maps Resident
Resources Ribblehead Viaduct
River Darling River Murray
Rockies Royal Observatory
Savannah Scale Sea level
Semi desert Settlement
Settler Sketch map Slope
Small scale Southern Cross
Southern Hemisphere
Southern Ocean Stoat Summit
Sydney Ta Moko Tasman Sea
Tectonic plate Tectonic plates
Temperate Temperate
Grassland
Terra Australis The Alps
Topography Tropical forest
Tsunami Urbanisation Valley
Viaduct Visual Western
hemisphere Wetland
Yorkshire
Mouth Natural Nicaragua North
America Nutrition Ottawa Panama
Pangea Parallel Parasite Particles
Pastoral Farming Plateau Polar
Political Political Globalisation Pollutant
Popularity Poverty Premature Prime
Meridian Production Productive Profit
Projection Proximity Quechua Quipu
Rainforest Recycle Reduce Region
Resources Reuse Rotate Saint Lucia
Savannah Semi desert Severe Slash and
Burn Social Source Soviet Union
Sparse population St Kits and Nevis
St Vincent and the Grenadines State
Subduction Subduction Zone Swarm
Synthetic Tectonic plate Temperate
Grassland The Poles Time Zone Tobago
Trade Trinidad Tropic of Cancer Tropical
forest Tundra Uninhabitable United States of America Urbanisation
Vulnerable Wages Washington DC
Waste Waterfront Wealth
WHO World Health Organisation
Reception:
Year 1:
Me on the Map
Katie in London
Year 2:
Picture Atlas
The Big Book of the UK
Story Based Curriculum
Year 3: Here We Are The Colour of Home
The River: An Epic Journey to the Sea
Thomas and The Tinners
Year 4:
Ernest Shackleton
Christopher Columbus
Nadia – The girl who couldn’t sit still Ireland – The people, the places, the stories Town is by the sea Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain
Year 5:
Christopher Columbus
Everest
Wuthering Heights
Expedition Diaries: Australian Outback
Globetrotters: New
Zealand
Map My Area: Mapping My World
Year 6:
Life in the Andes
Vasco Da Gama
The Explorer by Katherine Rundell Native Americans
Reception: Geography Week
Orienteering
Year 1:
Geography Week
Orienteering Forest School
Topic Based Workshop
Year 2:
Geography Week
Orienteering Forest School
Topic Based Workshop
Enrichment experiences
Year 3:
Geography Week
Orienteering Forest School JASS Award
Topic Based Workshop
Year 4:
Geography Week
Orienteering Forest School JASS Award
Topic Based Workshop
Year 5:
Geography Week
Orienteering Forest School
JASS Award
Topic Based Workshop
Year 6:
Geography Week
Orienteering Forest School
JASS Award
Topic Based Workshop
Reception:
Early Learning
Goals:
Transport
Transport Around the World
Transport in the Past
Travelling to the South Pole
Where I live
People Who Help Us
Our Community Through the Year
Food and Farming
Year 1:
Spatial Sense
Aerial Views
Maps Location
Compass Points
Drawing maps
The UK
The four countries in the United Kingdom
Scotland Wales
Northern Ireland
England
Seven Continents Europe
Antarctica Africa
Asia
North and South America
Australia
Year 2:
Spatial Sense
My School Site
Drawing a map of my school
Maps of the local area
Using maps to plan a route
Identifying locations on a globe or world map, the equator
The British Isles
The British Isles and England
Scotland Wales Ireland
Comparison with Cape Town
Northern Europe
Countries in Northern Europe.
Human and physical features of Northern Europe.
Climate in Northern Europe.
Animals found in Northern Europe.
Roald Amundsen
Knowledge
Year 3:
Spatial Sense
Maps, compasses and symbols
Four and Six Figure
Grid References
Fieldwork- The Local Area
A contrasting locality San Francisco (Human Geography)
A contrasting locality San Francisco (Physical Geography)
Settlements
Settlements
Types of Settlements
Urban, Rural and
Suburban areas
Population Density
Sites and Situations of Local Settlements
Rivers What is a river?
Rivers of Europe
Rivers of Africa
Rivers of Asia
Rivers of Australia, South America and North America
UK Geography: The South
Year 4:
Spatial Sense
Globes and the Tropics
Scale
Grid References
Our Local Area
Our Local Areachanges over time
Mediterranean Europe
Key Places in Europe
Climate of Mediterranean Europe
Food and Farming
Landscape
Settlements
Eastern Europe
Key Places in Eastern Europe Climate of Eastern Europe Russia
Compare and contrast physical features (with UK Moscow/London)
Compare and contrast human features (with UK Moscow/London)
UK Geography:
Northern Ireland An Introduction to Northern Ireland
Year 5:
Spatial Sense
Maps: dividing the world into sections
Eastern and Western hemispheres
Maps: using coordinates to locate places.
Maps: drawn to different scales.
Relief maps Mountains Mountains
The Alps
The High Peaks of the Himalayas
American Mountains
African Mountains
UK Geography: East
Anglia, The Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside
East Anglia – Physical Geography
East Anglia - Land Use
The Midlands –Settlements
Yorkshire and Humberside – Physical Geography
Yorkshire and Humberside – Human Geography
Year 6:
Spatial Sense
Latitude and Longitude
The Arctic and Antarctic Circles
Time Zones
Map Projection
Maps of the World
British Geographical Issues
Air Pollution
Climate Change
Waste
Litter
Local context
North America
The Countries of North America
Environmental Regions of North America
Rivers in North America
Cities in North America
Comparison of The UK and a region of North America
South America
An introduction to South America
Past civilisations and empires
The Andes Mountains and the Atacama Desert
Brazil (Agriculture and
West
Introduction to the South West
Coastal areas and erosion
Landmarks and tourism
Agriculture and climate
Change over time
Western Europe
Countries and Settlements in Western Europe
Climate of Western Europe
Trade in Western Europe
France
A comparison of London and Paris
Asia- China and India
Locating India and China
Human and Physical
Geography of India
Rivers of India
Human and Physical
Geography of China
The Great Wall of China
Visiting Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the partition
Finn MacCool and the Giant’s Causeway
The Marble Arch Caves
UK Geography:
London and the
South East
Introduction to the South East
London
The River Thames and the Thames Barrier
Canterbury
White Cliffs of Dover
– Coastal Erosion and Weathering
Australia
Australia - location and physical geography
The history of Australia
Settlements
Climate
Biodiversity
New Zealand and the South Pacific
New Zealand and the South Pacific - location and physical geography
The history of New Zealand - The Maori Earthquakes
Climate
South Pacific Islands
Local Study
Geography of the local area
Sketch Maps (Fieldwork)
Local Issues
Data Collection (Fieldwork)
Graphing data
Industry)
The Amazon Rainforest
Africa
The Continent of Africa
Past civilisations and empires – Mansa Musa
African Biomes
The Sahara Desert and
Desertification
Food and Farming
Globalisation
What is globalisation?
Economic Globalisation
Political Globalisation
Social Globalisation
Globalisation; a global force for good?
Reception: Year 1:
Geography Enquiry say what they like about their locality sort things they like and don’t like answer some questions using different resources, such as books, the internet and atlases think of a few relevant questions to ask about a locality answer questions about the weather keep a weather chart
Physical Geography tell someone their address know the school address/postcode describe a locality using words and pictures explain how the weather changes with each season name key features associated with a town or village, e.g. ‘church’, ‘farm’, ‘shop’, ‘house’ Human Geography begin to explain why they would wear
Year 2:
Geography Enquiry
label a diagram or photograph using some geographical words find out about a locality by using different sources of evidence
find out about a locality by asking some relevant questions to someone else say what they like and don’t like about their locality and another locality like the seaside find where they live on a map of the UK
Identify places on a globe and map
Physical Geography
describe some physical features of their own locality
explain the main features of a hot and cold place tell something about the people who live in hot and cold places explain what they might wear if they lived in a very hot or a very cold place explain what makes a locality special describe some places which are not near the school describe places in Europe
Skills
Year 3:
Geography Enquiry to use correct geographical words to describe a place and the events that happen there to identify key features of a locality by using a map to begin to use 4 figure grid references to accurately plot NSEW on a map to sketch a map or a plan to use some basic OS map symbols to make accurate measurement of distances within 100Km to begin to ask geographical questions to present findings from geographical enquiry
Physical Geography to use maps and atlases appropriately by using contents and indexes and globes to describe rivers to describe how describe physical features in a locality to locate Western Europe, India and Asia on a map and globe to recognise the 4 points of the compass To know the main rivers in India
Year 4:
Geography Enquiry
carry out a survey to discover features of cities and villages find the same place on a globe and in an atlas label the same features on an aerial photograph as on a map plan a journey to a place in England accurately measure and collect information (e.g. rainfall, temperature, wind speed, noise levels etc.)
Physical Geography
explain why many cities of the world are situated by rivers explain why people are attracted to live by rivers explain how a location fits into its wider geographical location; with reference to human and economical features describe the main features of a village describe the main physical differences between cities and villages use appropriate symbols to represent different physical features on a map
Year 5:
Geography Enquiry collect information about a place and use it in a report map land use find possible answers to their own geographical questions make detailed sketches and plans; improving their accuracy later plan a journey to a place in another part of the world, taking account of distance and time
Physical Geography explain how a location fits into its wider geographical location; with reference to physical features describe the main features of a well-known city
Year 6:
Geography Enquiry understand latitude and longitude and explain the difference compare and contrast the Arctic and Antarctic circles study different time zones
Human Geography
Human Geography explain what a place might be like in the future, taking account of issues impacting on human features suggest different ways that a locality could be changed and improved
Physical Geography understand and explain climate change in the UK and its effects on the physical geography of the country compare and contrast past African civilisations know the rivers, cities and countries of North America compare a region in North America and the Uk
Human Geography explain globalisation and its political, social and economic effect on the world explain desertification and
different clothes at different times of the year
identify looking at photos differences between city, village
using geographical words describe the key features of a place, using words like, beach, coast forest, hill, mountain, ocean, valley describe physical features of Northern Europe
Human Geography describe some human features of their own locality, such as the jobs people do explain how the jobs people do may be different in different parts of the world Do they think that people ever spoil the area? How? Do they think that people try to make the area better? How?
explain what facilities a town or village might need
To describe the main physical features of China
Human Geography to confidently describe human features in a locality to explain why a locality has certain human features to explain why a place is like it is to explain how the lives of people living in the Paris would be different from their own
explain why people are attracted to live in cities explain why people may choose to live in a village rather than a city explain how a locality has changed over time with reference to human features find different views about an environmental issue
its effects on human geography explain deforestation in the Amazon and its effects on the Brazilian economy