RECEPTION

• Talk about features of their own immediate environment and how they might vary.
• Observe and explore places, objects and plants.
• Patterns and change.
• Directional language.
• Real life experience.

YEAR 1

• Simple map.
• Developing knowledge of locality.

YEAR 2

• Construct map using basic symbols.
• 4 counties and capital cities of the UK with surrounding seas.

Year 3

• Embedding knowledge of UK
• Location of Russia focusing on key physical and human features on a sketch map

Year 4

• Mapping to locate world’s countries outside of Europe – South/Central America
• Mapping using symbols and keys to identify human and physical features

YEAR 5

• Sketch maps and diagrams of human and physical features and how they affect land use and settlement.

YEAR 6

• Locating counties and cities within the UK.
• Measure, record and present human and physical features using sketch maps, graphs and diagrams.