Welcome to Sussex Road School Geography
Geography is part of our everyday lives - something that children don't always realise. We seek to inspire or harness children's curiosity, fascination and understanding about the diverse world around them, including their place within it. We believe that greater knowledge of the world around us leads to greater understanding, empathy and connection between us all. It's important to us that children develop a sense of their place in the world and have the opportunity to explore the different ways in which we are connected - both to each other and to our environment. Children are encouraged to question why the world is the way it is, not just accept it as it is, and to think about how they can actively shape and participate in the fate of the world's future.
Our Enquiries support the acquisition and development of our key concepts across the school. We aim to promote progressive geographical skills through meaningful tasks and investigations which lend themselves to questioning and deeper thinking. We provide opportunities to develop a greater understanding of Tonbridge and immediate area in which we live as well as comparing and contrasting with other places the children may know from travels abroad and some lesser known or more remote parts of the world.
Sussex Road School Geography |
| Human & Physical | Fieldwork & Research | Similarities and Differences | Locality |
Year 1 | Weather patterns Four seasons Physical and human changes to environments | Features of home and school Data from first and second hand sources |
| Continents and oceans Maps, plans, symbols and keys |
Year 2 |
| Compass directions Aerial photographs Asking and responding to questions – own locality | UK and a non-European country | Four countries of the UK UK capital cities Maps and keys |
Year 3 | Volcanoes and earthquakes Settlements Rivers and the water cycle |
| Compare the UK and a European country | Countries of Europe Impact of human and physical geography Topographical features of the UK |
Year 4 | Settlements and land use Rivers | Observe, measure and record 8 points of the compass |
| Countries of Europe, North & South America Equator, hemisphere and tropics |
Year 5 | Climate zones, vegetation belts, food, environmental impact | Observations and measurements | UK and Mexico | Environmental regions of North America Latitude and longitude, Prime Meridian and time zones Changes in land use over time |
Year 6 | Environmental zones of Europe, North & South America Maps, atlases, globes & digital mapping Climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts | 4 and 6 figure grid references Recording observations and measurements | UK and Europe, North & South America | Physical and human characteristics of UK cities and changes over time |