Subject Overview : Geography Intent (Skills/ knowledge) Implementation (How/ When) FS Year 1 Year 2 Early Learning Goal: Understanding Ge1/1.1 Location Knowledge Ge1/1.1 Location Knowledge of the world - Children to name their town, city and country. - Children to name, locate and identify - children to know similarities and characteristics of the four countries that make up differences in relation to place, - Children to name the four countries that make the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas. objects, materials and living things. up the United Kingdom. - They talk about the features of - Children to name and locate the world’s seven their own immediate environment Ge1/1.2 Place Knowledge continents and five oceans and how environments might vary from one another. - Children to understand similarities and Ge1/1.2 Place Knowledge differences through studying the human and What is special about my house? physical geography of the local area - Children to understand similarities and What road do I live on? differences through studying the human and GE1/1.3 Human and Physical Geography physical geography of the United Kingdom and of Seasonal work – naming seasons a small area in a contrasting Non-European and features. - Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in country. the United Kingdom. GE1/1.3 Human and Physical Geography - Identify simple human and physical features in the local area. - Identify locations of hot and cold areas of the e.g. road, school, house, town, city, shop, trees, world in relation to the Equator and the North and grass, forest South Poles. INTENT INTENT GE1/1.4 Geographical Skills and Fieldwork Identify human and physical features including -Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, the United Kingdom and Stoke on Trent. ocean, river, valley, vegetation, village, factory, farm, port, harbor - Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to study the geography of the school and its GE1/1.4 Geographical Skills and Fieldwork grounds. -Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom, its countries, the world - Begin to use simple locational and directional continents and oceans language such as left, right, to describe position. - Use simple fieldwork and observational skills to - Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives study the geography of the city and compare it to to recognise landmarks and basic human and another location. physical features of the local area ; -devise a simple map; and use and construct basic -devise a simple map; symbols in a key. - Begin to use simple compass points (NSEW) and locational and directional language to describe the location of features and routes on a map. UK, England, Stoke-on-Trent, Geographical names – Alexandra Infants’ School, All Y1 vocabulary and: Normacot, city, house – terraced, Normacot, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Geographical names – Europe, Africa, North semidetached, detached, Kingdom, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, America, South America, Asia, Oceania, Antarctica, bungalow, flat, season, spring, English Channel, North Sea, Irish Sea Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Artic Ocean, Atlantic summer, autumn, winter, hot, cold, Ocean, Southern Ocean, Pakistan, Islamabad, Geographical processes – human, physical features, city, town, factory, house – terraced, semidetached, detached, bungalow, flat, place, Geographical processes – continent, ocean, Beach, Vocabulary Vocabulary office, shop, mosque, church,, village, farm, coast, port, harbor, compare, forest, hill mountain, landmarks, , weather, weather chart, hot, cold, range, river Thames, soil, valley, vegetation, near, rain, snow, sunshine, pattern, similarities, far,Pakistan, temperate, salt range, boarders differences, map, globe, atlas, ocean, hot, cold, mild, Topic 1 Topic 2 Topic 3 Year 1 Street Detectives – LC – Where Amazing skies – LC question – Street Detectives – LC question do the wheels on the bus go? Where do the leaves go in the –Where do the wheels on the Concept - Discovery winter? Why can’t a meerkat bus go? Investigate School and local area: live in the Arctic? Concept – Legacy/ Discovery Normacot. Concept – Reality Investigate their local city: Stoke- on-Trent. WOW: Letter from story Daily and seasonal weather character. patterns. WOW: Magical mystery tour around Stoke on Trent. Books to share – Nat geographic WOW: Unwrap the book box to – City and country, introduce topic. Books to share – Nat geographic – City and country, Town mouse Key questions – Where do I live? Books to share – Nat Geographic and country mouse, What is special about my local - Everything weather, Nat Geo – area? What can be found in my storms, Nat Geo – weather, Nat Key questions – What country is local area? What could people use Geographic – amazing animal Stoke on Trent in? what human to find their way around- how can journeys – Great Migration. features make Stoke on Trent I help them? famous? What do these features Key questions – What is the tell us about Stoke on Trent? How Key Teaching Points: weather like in the UK? How is many towns are there in Stoke- Children to name their town, the weather different in seasons? on-Trent? Have you been to any? city and country. Can I predict what kind of How many different ways can you Children to understand similarities and differences weather we will have in different travel around our city? What is through studying the human seasons? What do some birds do different about where we live and and physical geography of the in the Winter? Why? the main town Hanley? How is my local area town different to a village? Use simple fieldwork and Key teaching points: observational skills to study Use world maps, atlases and Key Teaching Points: the geography of the school globes to identify the United Children to name their town, and its grounds. Kingdom and its countries. city and country. Use aerial photographs and Begin to use simple compass Children to understand plan perspectives to recognise points (NSEW) to describe similarities and differences landmarks and basic human position. through studying the human and physical features; devise a Identify seasonal and daily and physical geography of the simple map; and use and weather patterns in the United local area construct basic symbols in a Kingdom. Use simple fieldwork and key. observational skills to study Begin to use simple compass the geography of the school points (NSEW) to describe and its grounds. position. Use aerial photographs and plan perspectives to recognise landmarks and basic human Educational Visit – Local area walk. and physical features; devise a simple map; and use and construct basic symbols in a key. -Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and Stoke on Trent. Educational Visit – Magical Mystery Tour – Mini bus around the city to different places. Bus journey to Hanley – visit a landmark - The museum. Year 2 Bright lights – Big City – LC Seaside or Stoke on Trent? – LC Get set go! LC question – Where question – What would we find question – Why do we love to would you prefer to live England or exciting about our capital city? Pakistan? be beside the seaside? Concept – Discovery Concept – Legacy/ discovery Concept- Discovery The UK, London Landmarks, maps Compare the UK with a small non- Compare Stoke on Trent to a beach European country – Pakistan. and directions. Name places on UK town – looking at human and map and learn about London – as a physical features of a small area in capital city. WOW: A letter from a pupil in the UK. Pakistan. WOW: Discovery box – unwrap WOW: A visit to a local seaside photographs, books about London. resort. Books to share- Malala’s magic Books to share: Katie in London pencil (Malala Yousafazai), The big (James Mayhew) We completely Must Books to share: Tiddler (Julia book of the UK (Nat trust), GO to LONDON - Charlie & Lola Donaldson) What a waste (Jess French) Unbelievable pictures and fact of (Lauren Child) Nonfiction texts National Trust: Look and Say What You Pakistan (Olivia Greenwood), See at the Seaside. I spy at the seaside linked to London, The big book of the (Collins) UK (Nat trust) Key questions – Key questions – Where in the world Key questions – is Pakistan? Is it close to the UK? What does UK mean? Can I identify Why do people visit a seaside? How is the location different to where we Which direction on a map would you the countries of the UK? Which travel to get there? What continent is continent does the UK belong to? live? Which ocean is the UK next to? How do we know on a map of the UK it on? What Ocean(s) is it next to? Is it What sea are we next to? What is the where the seaside towns will be? close to the Equator? What is the capital city of England? Where is Where is the nearest seaside town to same/ different about Pakistan and London? Is Stoke-on-Trent close to Stoke-on-Trent? Which way would where we live? What is Pakistan’s London? Stoke on Trent has canals – you travel on a map? What do you capital city? Is it like London? Does it does London? How can I use different notice about the coast and how it is have a major river like London? What sources of information to find out different to where we live? Can you is the weather like? Can you compare about London? What are the famous sort physical and human features? the weather to the UK? Is Global landmarks? How can I make sure that What sources of information can you warming effecting Pakistan’s I see everything? How can my use to find out about a seaside?