Geography – Physical
Subject Key Objective Progression & Development by Year Groups
The following is a guide to help you understand your child’s progression through school.
All lessons are differentiated. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.
Intent, Implementation and Impact
The curriculum is designed with our pupils and the Swinemoor community in mind.
It enables children to access and enhance their understanding of their home, their town and the wider community, developing their cultural capital and giving them opportunities and choices about their future and their impact as they progress through their school career and beyond.
This will help them become successful members of modern British society, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities.
GEOGRAPHY – Physical
EYFS: “To identify different types of weather in our own environment and surroundings.”
KS1: “To identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and locate the hot and cold areas of the world.”
KS2: “To describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including climate zones and vegetation belts.”
EYFS:
Weather (T1)
Temperature (T2)
Environment (T2)
KS1:
Season (T1)
Equator (T2)
Barometer (T3)
KS2:
Biomes (T3)
Climate (T2)
Vegetation (T3)
Children may demonstrate knowledge of the physical features of culturally different places around the world.
They will also be able to explain and describe the different weather types for these different places around the world.
Children will understand various physical features of the world and they will compare and contrast this with their local environment.
What will be made, produced, performed, or published?
Children will produce a piece of portfolio work, finished to a high standard, demonstrating their knowledge and understanding.
They will also participate in structured lessons about Physical Geography, producing written work and reflective dialogue.
What knowledge will the children have embedded?
Children will be able to recall the four seasons, typical weather associated with that season and they will be able describe the varying weather patterns across different countries.
They will have a good understanding of the vast physical features of both their local environment and the wider world. They will also be able to compare and contrast the different physical aspects of the world.
What retention may be demonstrated?
Here are some example questions that may be used to assess children’s understanding.
EYFS: Can you tell me different types of weather? Can you describe what clothing you may need to wear outside in winter?
KS1: Can you name the four seasons? Can you tell me any hot and cold areas of the world?
KS2: Can you define the term ‘biome’? Can you describe a specific biome and what may live there and why?
Geography – Physical – Primary Curriculum
Physical – Foundation stage:
They begin to identify and understand the different types of weather.
Physical – Year 1:
They identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK.
Physical- Year 2:
They look in more depth at the daily and seasonal weather patterns in the UK, as well as identifying the hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the equator and North and South Poles.
Physical – Year 3:
They begin to identify the key aspects of the water cycle.
Physical – Year 4:
They have increased knowledge of the world and they continue to identify the key aspects of the water cycle in depth, as well as understand different types of settlements.
Physical – Year 5:
With increased knowledge of physical features of the world, they start to explore, describe and understand features such as earthquakes and volcanoes.
Physical – Year 6:
With a broad and vast bank of knowledge about the physical features of the world, they explore and investigate climate zones, vegetation belts and biomes.
Physical – Mastery:
To apply their knowledge to confidently describe and explain the relationship between different physical features of the world.
This collection of short films and resources will help you understand your child’s progression through school.
The curriculum film resource has been broken down by subject area initially and then by topic area.
