Human and Physical Geography

EYFS

By the end of EYFS children will be able to:

• Talk about some of the things they have observed e.g. plants, animals, natural and found objects.
• Show care and concern for living things and the environment.
• Understand  growth, decay and changes over time

Year 1

By the end of Year 1 children will be able to:

• Focusing on the school and locality, describe what places in the locality are like.
• Recognise where things are in relation to other things in the locality.
• Think about how the school environment could be improved.
• Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the UK.
• With support read a thermometer.
• Use simple labelled sketches and plans.
• Identify and name key human features e.g. city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port.
• Identify and name key physical features e.g. beach, season, weather, forest, hill.

Year 2

By the end of Year 2 children will be able to:

• Study an area of a non-European country.
• Compare and recognise differences between a chosen non-European country and a local area.
• Make observations about seasonal weather changes (of a chosen non-European country).
• Follow a route on a map.
• Draw a map of a real route and record using a key.
• Identify and name key human features – city, town, village, factory, farm, house, office, port.
• Identify and name key physical features – cliff, coast, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation.

Year 3

By the end of Year 3 children will be able to:

• Draw maps from a plan view.
• Use a rain  gauge/anemometer.

Year 4

By the end of Year 4 children will be able to:

• Make observations about patterns made by human features.
• Make observations about patterns made by natural features.
• Recognise how a place fits within a wider geographical context.
• Describe how human processes can lead to similarities and differences in the environments of different places, and in the lives of the people who live there.
• Understand the terms 'biomes' and 'vegetation belts'.

Year 5

By the end of Year 5 children will be able to:

• Understand what mountains are and how they’re formed.
• Describe and compare the physical and human features of different localities.
• Know how particular features have evolved and how they might change in the future.
• Explain features of places and why they change, including how they might get damaged or be improved.
• Use keys in atlases to make deductions about landscape.
• Draw a sketch map with a key.
• Study rivers and the water cycle.

Year 6

By the end of Year 6 children will be able to:

• Understand what volcanoes and earthquakes are.
• Recognise and explain patterns in physical and human features in several different localities.
• Know about a number of physical and human processes, their importance and how they can cause change.
• Recognise how people can improve and sustain their environment.
• Explain different views in relation to a geographical issue.
• Analyse evidence and draw conclusions e.g. population data for two localities.
• Use detailed field sketches.
• Recognise physical features e.g. effects if flooding/ drought.