Year Group

Climate & Weather

Locations

Economic & Human Geography

Maps

Geographical Features

Year 3

• Correct geographical words to describe a place.

• Knowledge of UK.

• Communication, roads, motorways and transports in Britain.

• Planning a journey to a place in England.
• British Isles.

• Understanding volcanoes.

Year 4

• A climate zone.
• Measuring weather, temperature, rainfall, windspeed etc.

• European Union and capitals.
• Northern and Southern hemisphere countries and tropics.

• Comparing life in cities, towns and the countryside.

• Planning a journey to another place in the world.

• Fertile and non-fertile growing areas.
• Earthquakes.

Year 5

• Measuring weather.
• Keeping daily, weekly, termly records.
• World weather.

• Continents; major countries, mountain ranges, rivers, capital cities.
• Oceans and seas.

• Geographical position of towns and cities next to rivers.
• Human and economic locations of towns.

• Using maps.
• Simple OS symbols and grid references.

• Deserts and desert regions of the world.
• Hot and cold deserts.
• The world's largest desert.
• World kitchen.

Year 6

• Major climate zones of the world.
• Global warming.
• Climatic extremes.
• Jet stream.
• Ocean currents.
• Gulf stream
• El Nino.

• The Tropics.
• The Arctic, Antarctic circle.
• One continent in depth.
• The Earth and Solar System.

• Sustainability.
• Global warming.
• Geographical features using aerial photos, plans and electronic resources.
• Human and physical features on maps. 

• Using OS maps; understanding symbols and 6-figure coordinates.
• Using a map to answer questions on world time zones.

• Rivers and mountains.
• The course of a river.
• Famous rivers and their locations on an atlas.