Geography

Learning in Geography

All the teaching staff at Meon Infant School are working with Meon Junior and Moorings Way Infant School colleagues to identify how our curriculum will meet the needs of our children across the three schools.

We believe it is important to plan the learning journey of the children from Year R to Year 6. As an Infant school our education helps teach students the skills and knowledge they will need to continue to develop at our Junior school.  This is vitally important. As three schools, we have worked together to produce a joint intention of what we want the children to learn. 

teaching sequence

Progression

By the end of Year 2

By the end of Year 2, our geographers will have a keen respect, interest and knowledge of the world around them – especially their local area.  They will recognise and know their place in the world through a developing location and place. They will have an appreciation of the knowledge of impacts of human and physical geography.  They will have experienced their own geographical discovery through opportunities to develop their own observational and fieldwork skills.  This will help them to find their place in our world.

Pupils should be taught to:

Locational knowledge

  • name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans.
  • name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.

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, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.
    • key human features, including: city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port, harbour and shop.

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.

 

By the end of Year 6

By the end of Year 6 our geographers will extend their respect, interest and knowledge of the world beyond the local area – including UK and Europe and N/S America.  They will recognise significant human and physical features of their world environments and locations and be able to comment on similarities and differences between them.  They can observe, measure, record and present information and findings from their local area using a range of geographical methods to help them find their place in the world.