Download Geography long term plan - Lilycroft Primary School

GEOGRAPHY CURRICULUM – September 2016
Y3
Y4
Y5
Y6
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Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to inc. the UK &
Europe, North & South America (France in French lessons)
PROVISION:
*locate the world’s countries, using maps, FOCUS ON Europe, Russia, N/S America – environmental
regions, key physical /human characteristics, countries / major cities (& in French)
*use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
* use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key
 Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to inc the UK &
Europe, North & South America (In French lessons)
 Place knowledge, comparison of UK/EU/North/South America (TOPIC: Chocolate)
 Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (inc location of Russia) and North and
South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human
characteristics, countries and major cities (TOPIC: WW2)
 Use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local
area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.
(TOPIC: Local Geography)
PROVISON:
*name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and their identifying human and
physical characteristics, key topographical features (TOPIC: Welcome to Yorkshire)
* use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features
studied
* use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key
 Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to inc the UK &
Europe, North & South America (In French lessons and in Mountains and Extreme Earth)
 Place knowledge, comparison of UK/EU/North/South America (TOPIC: Mountains)
 Human and physical geography (TOPIC: Extreme Earth and Mountains)
 Locate the world’s countries, using maps, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical
characteristics (TOPIC: Mountains and Extreme Earth)
 Identify the position and significance of longitude, latitude, Equator, Northern and Southern
hemisphere, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, Arctic and Antarctic Circle, Prime/Greenwich
Meridian and time zones (inc day and night) (Y5 in Science – SPACE)
PROVISION:
use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
* use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key
 Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to inc the UK &
Europe, North & South America (In French lessons)
 Name and locate counties and cities of the UK, geographical regions and their identifying human and
physical characteristics, key topographical features (inc hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and
land-use patterns, and understand how some of these aspects have changed over time (Residential
and in Lakes, Rivers and Floods)
 Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains,
volcanoes and earthquakes and the water cycle
PROVISION:
*use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied
*use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols and key (inc. the use of
Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of the UK and the wider world.
* use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical features in the local area
using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.
All year groups to have UK and Worldwide maps in classrooms as art of provision, to
have questions and challenges linked to the map – finding cities / countries / mountain
ranges / seas… These questions / tasks to change regularly over the year, ensuring
coverage of locational knowledge.