Our key objectives for this unit are:
Locational Knowledge
To understand basic geographical features: houses (human features).
Place Knowledge
To develop knowledge about children’s locality – jobs (human features).
Human and Physical Geography
To recognise human and physical features in the context of children’s own locality.
To use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key human/physical features.
Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
To use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the surrounding environment in the context of children’s own locality.
Locational knowledge
Name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surroundings.
Place Knowledge
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.
Human and Physical Geography
Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles.
Use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to: key physical features and key human features.
Geographical Skills and Fieldwork
Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage.
Use simple compass directions (North, South, East and West) and locational and directional language (for example, near and far; left and right), to describe the location of features and routes on a map.
Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key.
Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of their school and its grounds and the key human and physical features of its surrounding environment.