WholeSchoolGeography map
Term / EYFS / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Year 4 / Year 5 / Year 6Autumn 1 / Our School
Aerial view of school using photos/Google Earth. Create Lego model and bird’s eye plan of classroom. Language of direction. Labelling plan of school. How to improve school playground. / Wonderful Woking
The locality and address of children’s homes. Identifying and describing what Woking is like and comparing physical/human features with Isle of Struay.
Creating map of Struay. Expressing preferences / Living in the Rainforest
Locating rainforests on maps/globes and knowing why they are located there. Importance of rainforests. Comparing life of indigenous tribe and their own, how is heir life related to environment? How the rainforests are changing and how they can be protected. / Rivers
Locating and naming major rivers and seas in atlases and maps. Recognising contours on maps. Importance of river in land use and the development of settlements.
How rivers change the landscape. Formation of waterfall. Using OS maps. Positive and negative impacts of humans and rivers on each other / Mountains
What are mountain environments like (landscape, weather, and wildlife)? Using atlases and globes locate major mountain ranges. The impact of tourism on mountainregions. Project on mountain range.
Autumn 2 / India
Location of India & bordering countries. Physical features. Using atlases/keys. Comparing lie in cities to the countryside and look at the contrast between rich and poor in the cities. Research housing, food, clothing, leisure activities. Life for a child in Chembakolli.
Spring 1 / Journeys
Naming/locating continents. Major countries, cities, mountains, rivers of Europe. Comparing locations with Woking. Country project. / Eye on Woking
What is Woking like? How can it be improved? Field work. Small scale map work. Conducting analysing surveys.
Spring 2 / Weather
Using atlases to locate UK countries. Points of compass. Weather symbols and maps. Seasonal changes. Extreme weather and how it affects people/ places. / Making it Fair
Where our food comes from. Understanding Fair Trade). Recognising how places are interdependent through the supply of food and other natural materials (banana and cotton).
Summer 1 / Global Gardens
From bean to bar, the journey of a cocoa bean. Comparing the landscape, weather and clothing of Ghana to Woking. Recognising how we get some of our food from faraway places. The location of Ghana on a map. / Kenya
Location of Kenya, landscape, climate, economy. What is life like in Chome? Why are people moving to the cities?
Summer2 / Making it better!
Identifying environmental issues in the news. Plotting news items on map and classifying. Creating and conducting surveys. Focus on depletion of ozone layer.