Geography Year Group Vocabulary
Geography Curriculum Statement
At Harewood Primary School our intent is to engage children with the world around us, both physical and human. We hope to develop children’s experiences and understanding of Geography, inspiring and igniting their curiosity in the world in which we live.
Our aims in Geography are:
- To give children an understanding of their local environment and to contrast this with other environments they may not be familiar with.
- To promote awe and wonder of the world.
- To promote the human and physical characteristics of places across the world that make our planet unique.
- To enable learners to be confident to understand and ask questions about the world around them.
- To encourage our subject to be learned inside and outside of the classroom.
The new learning challenges have been developed to ensure full coverage of the National Curriculum. It follows the programme of study for each year and uses Geography as the main driver but ensures that creative and expressive arts get a fair representation across the curriculum. Pupils should develop knowledge about the world, the United Kingdom and their locality. They should understand basic subject-specific vocabulary relating to human and physical geography and begin to use geographical skills, including first-hand observation, to enhance their locational awareness.
Geography at Harewood Primary School
A geographer at Harewood can do the following things. We share this with the children at the beginning of geography lessons.
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Long Term Overview
A long term plan outlines geography topics from Nursery to Y6.
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Geography skills Progression
This outlines a progression of skills and knowledge studied from EY to Y6.
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Knowledge Organisers
Each geography topic has a knowledge organiser, which includes what children will be learning, key facts, key knowledge, place names, geographical terms and processes, locational terms and a glossary. There is also a progression statement with topic specific vocabulary, enquiry questions and ready to progress statements.
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Geography Assembly
Every week, each year group does an assembly about different countries and important events around the world. This is based on the Oddizzi ‘The World this week’ packs.
Geography across school
Nursery
Reception
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Display
Children’s work is displayed across school.
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Earth Day
We enjoyed Earth Day in school by celebrating all the wonderful things about our beautiful Earth. We also looked at how plastic is harming our planet, and how we can reduce the damage it is causing. Each class created bottle top flowers, which we used to create a whole school collaborative display.
Each class was allocated a different country to find out about. Children were invited to come to school dressed in clothes that represent their country, traditional clothing, sports clothing from that country or colours from the country’s flag. Countries were chosen to reflect the different countries that some of our children come from: Spain, Mexico, Greenland, Nigeria, China, Canada, Pakistan, Germany, Indonesia, Mauritius, Hong Kong, Australia, South Africa, Latvia and India.
Our Whole School Collaborative Display
Trips
We have many trips and visitors across school, with a geography focus:
Nursery have visited Newham Grange Farm during Autumn, Winter and Spring to observe seasonal changes. They will also visit during Summer.
Reception have been on Autumn Walks in the local area to collect autumnal objects and talk about seasonal changes.
Y1 visit Saltburn beach to identify features of the seaside and compare Thornaby to Saltburn. They also go on walks close to school to find out what we have in our local area.
Y2 visit Teesmouth and look at animal habitats which they then compare to animal habitats in hot and cold places.
Y3 have a ‘Stone Age visitor’, who shows the children how stone age people lived. This helps them to understand about settlers and settlements.
Y5 visit Tesco to find out where our food comes from and investigate how much of our food is imported. Some children when to the Arc for the Youth COP-28 to learn about climate change.
Y6 visit Teesmouth to find out about the journey of the River Tees.
