Y3 Geography

Whole School Purpose Whole School Aims/ Assessment Areas Key Stage Objectives Year Group Coverage A high-quality geography The national curriculum for geography aims to Pupils should extend their education should inspire in ensure that all pupils: knowledge and Locational knowledge pupils a curiosity and understanding beyond the name and locate counties and cities of the United Kingdom, geographical develop contextual knowledge of the location of fascination about the world local area to include the regions and their identifying human and physical characteristics, key and its people that will topographical features (including hills, mountains, coasts and rivers), and land- globally significant places – both terrestrial and United Kingdom and remain with them for the use patterns; and understand how some of these aspects have changed over marine – including their defining physical and Europe, North and South rest of their lives. time human characteristics and how these provide a America. geographical context for understanding the Teaching should equip This will include the location Place knowledge (Study human and physical geography of a region with a pupils with knowledge actions of processes and characteristics of a view to later academic years being able to contrast the wider about diverse places, range of the world’s most understand the processes that give rise to key world with their UK region knowledge.) people, resources and significant human and understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human physical and human geographical features of the natural and human physical features. and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom, a region in a environments, together world, how these are interdependent and how European country, and a region within North or South America with a deep understanding they bring about spatial variation and change They should develop their of the Earth’s key physical over time use of geographical Human and physical geography (Cover the aspects of physical and human and human processes. geography below which are relevant to the UK) are competent in the geographical skills needed knowledge, understanding and skills to enhance their describe and understand key aspects of: As pupils progress, their to: growing knowledge about locational and place physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, the world should help them collect, analyse and communicate with a range knowledge. rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle to deepen their of data gathered through experiences of human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity understanding of the fieldwork that deepen their understanding of including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, interaction between geographical processes food, minerals and water physical and human processes, and of the interpret a range of sources of geographical formation and use of information, including maps, diagrams, globes, Geographical skills and fieldwork use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and landscapes and aerial photographs and Geographical environments. describe features studied Information Systems (GIS) use the eight points of a compass, four and six-figure grid references, symbols communicate geographical information in a Geographical knowledge, and key (including the use of Ordnance Survey maps) to build their knowledge of understanding and skills variety of ways, including through maps, the United Kingdom and the wider world provide the frameworks numerical and quantitative skills and writing at and approaches that length. use fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human and physical explain how the Earth’s features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, features at different scales plans and graphs, and digital technologies. are shaped, interconnected and change over time.