Talk about my environment at school and home expressing an opinion about it. 

Talk about places I have visited and say how that place was similar or different to my usual environment.

Talk about natural and built environments and listen to different points of view on the quality of an environment.

Children will be exposed to stories set in different places and encouraged to use basic geographical language (e.g. sea, beach, forest, hill, town, village, farm, river etc).

Talk about my environment at school and home expressing an opinion about it. 

Talk about places I have visited and say how that place was similar or different to my usual environment.

Talk about natural and built environments and listen to different points of view on the quality of an environment.

Children will be exposed to stories set in different places and encouraged to use basic geographical language (e.g. sea, beach, forest, hill, town, village, farm, river etc).

ELG: Children know about similarities and differences in relation to places. They talk about the features of their own immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.

Use basic observational skills

Carry out a small survey of the local area/school

Draw simple features

Create plans and raw simple features in their familiar environment

Recognise a photo or a video as a record of what has been seen or heard

Use a simple picture map to move around the school

Use relative vocabulary such as bigger, smaller, like, dislike

Use directional language such as near and far, up and down, left and right, forwards and backwards and begin to recognise compass directions (North, South, East, West)

Use world maps to identify the UK in its position in the world.

Use maps to locate the four countries and capital cities of UK and its surrounding seas

Draw basic maps, including appropriate symbols and pictures to represent places or features

Use photographs and maps to identify features

Ask geographical questions

Use a simple database to present findings from fieldwork

Use appropriate terminology

Draw an annotated sketch from observation including some descriptive / explanatory labels

Select views to photograph

Begin to add titles and labels giving date information

Consider how photos provide useful evidence and use a camera independently

Begin to locate the position of a photo on a map

Follow a route on a map with some accuracy

Locate places using a range of maps including OS & digital

Begin to match boundaries (e.g. find same boundary of a country on different scale maps)

Use 4 figure compasses, and letter/number co-ordinates to identify features on a map

Locate the UK on a variety of different scale maps

Name & locate the counties and cities of the UK

Try to make a map of a short route experiences, with features in current order

Create a simple scale drawing

Use standard symbols, and understand the importance of a key

Ask geographical questions

Record findings from field trips 

Use a database to present findings

Use appropriate terminology

Draw an annotated sketch from observation including descriptive / explanatory labels and indicating direction

Select views to photograph

Add titles and labels giving date and location information

Consider how photo’s provide useful evidence 

Use a camera independently

Locate position of a photo on a map

Follow a route on a large scale map

Locate places on a range of maps (variety of scales)

Identify features on an aerial photograph, digital or computer map

Begin to use 8 figure compass and four figure grid references to identify features on a map

Locate Europe on a large scale map or globe,

Name and locate countries in Europe (including Russia) and their capitals cities

Recognise and use OS map symbols, including completion of a key and understand why it is important

Draw a sketch map from a high viewpoint

Use a database to interrogate/amend information collected

Annotate sketches to describe and explain geographical processes and patterns

Make a judgement about the best angle or viewpoint when taking an image or completing a sketch

Use photographic evidence in their investigations 

Evaluate the usefulness of the images

Compare maps with aerial photographs

Select a map for a specific purpose

Begin to use atlases to find out other information (e.g. temperature)

Find and recognise places on maps of different scales

Use 8 figure compasses, begin to use 6 figure grid references.

Locate the world’s countries, focus on North & South America

Identify the position and significance of lines of longitude & latitude

Draw a variety of thematic maps based on their own data

Draw a sketch map using symbols and a key

Use and recognise OS map symbols regularly

Select appropriate methods for data collection (such as interviews)

Use a database to interrogate/amend information collected

Use graphs to display data collected

Evaluate the quality of evidence collected and suggest improvements

Evaluate their sketch against set criteria and improve it

Use sketches as evidence in an investigation. select field sketching from a variety of techniques

Annotate sketches to describe and explain geographical processes and patterns

Make a judgement about the best angle or viewpoint when taking an image or completing a sketch

Use photographic evidence in their investigations 

Evaluate the usefulness of the images

Follow a short route on a OS map

Describe the features shown on an OS map

Use atlases to find out data about other places

Use 8 figure compass and 6 figure grid reference accurately

Use lines of longitude and latitude on maps

Locate the world’s countries on a variety of maps, including the areas studied throughout the Key Stages

Draw plans of increasing complexity

Begin to use and recognise atlas symbols