| Year | Autumn | Spring | Summer |
| 1 | What is my place like?
My Geography Home and School Focus: Fieldwork and observational skills. Basic maps. |
What can I find?
Me and my corner of the world. Local area. Focus: Fieldwork and observational skills, basic maps, use and labelling of photographs, geographical language. |
What is my country like?
Me and my UK. UK countries, capitals and seas. Focus: map skills, photograph use, basic atlas introduction |
| 2 | Why is my world wonderful?
Simple world Maps and features. Focus: continent, oceans, mountains, rivers. |
Wherever next?
Location and journeys. Focus: hot and cold places, continent, oceans, North/South/East/West. Key vocabulary. |
Holidays – where shall we go?
Place comparisons – geographical features. Focus: contrast area of UK and area of non-European country, e.g. UK Coast and ST. Lucia |
| 3 | UK Discovery – is the UK the same everywhere?
Focus: Physical geography – hills, coasts, rivers, farms, industry, population. |
Why do we have cities?
UK towns, cities and countries. Focus: countries, land use, settlement, contrasting cities. |
We’ve got it all! Why is the North East special?
Regional focus with lead on rivers and coasts. Focus: Fieldwork, water cycle, rivers- their formation and impact. |
| 4 | Why does Italy shake and roar?
Bay of Naples. Focus: region in Europe, physical and human characteristics, tectonics. Compare to North East England.
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What can we discover about Europe?
Places, features and people. Focus: land use, key human and physical features, and locations. |
Local fieldwork – school discretionary study. |
| 5 | Where could we go? Fantastic Journeys.
Focus: key countries and features of the world. Regions, tropics, hemispheres, tropics, time zones Longitude/Latitude. |
What shapes my world?
Processes and key features shaping places and human experiences Focus: weather, water, tectonics, biomes and climate zones |
Where has my food come from?
Origins of key foods. Focus: trade links, natural resources, fieldwork, thematic maps, industry, farming, employment. Possible link to local fieldwork to conduct survey/ questionnaire and impact evaluation. |
| 6 | Fantastic Forests – Why are they so important?
Vegetation, biomes, forest types. Focus: world maps of different types, biomes and different types of forests, rainforests with case study of South America. Local fieldwork opportunity in local woodlands, data collection and presentation tasks. |
School discretionary study | Destination Sao Paulo! What do places have in common?
Comparing a region in South America with a region in the UK. Focus: Human and physical features, village/cities/lifestyle. Comparative writing focus. |
Aiming High Together
