Geography

At Palm Bay we follow the CUSP Curriculum for Geography. Our teaching and learning is focused on providing opportunities for children to develop their understanding of the world while become ‘more expert’ with each unit of study. The children also have an opportunity to engage in a wide range of enrichment activities including beach school, forest school, map work skills and eco-school activities.

We have 5 ‘disciplinary knowledge’ strands which supports the children to ‘think as a Geographer’. These strands are:

The table below shows what each year group covers:

	Autumn Term	Spring Term	Summer Term	Map Work Week
Year 1	Continents and oceans / countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom	Hot and cold locations	Revisiting continents, oceans, UK countries, capital cities and seas	Mapping and fieldwork (what is a map?)
Year 2	Human and physical geography in the local area	Human and physical geography of a small area in the UK and of a contrasting non-European country (Yanomami)	Human and physical geography of a small area in the UK and of a contrasting non-European country (London and Nairobi)	Mapping and fieldwork (identifying human and physical features on a map)
Year 3	Counties and regions of the United Kingdom	Fieldwork and Map Skills	Revisiting countries, counties and regions of the United Kingdom	OS map skills and fieldwork (including scale)
Year 4	Rivers	Longitude and latitude	Water cycle	Map skills (environmental regions of Europe, Russia, North and South America)
Year 5	The location of countries of the world, including biomes	Map skills – four and six figure grid references	Revisiting locations and biomes	OS map skills and fieldwork (including grid references and contour lines)
Year 6	Study and compare places: region in the UK, Europe and North America	Study physical processes: earthquakes, mountains and volcanoes	Study human geography – economic, settlements and trade links	Orienteering map skills and navigation