KS1

Geography Curriculum

KS1 geography focuses on developing a child’s understanding of the world. Children will begin to understand subject-specific vocabulary and begin to use geographical skills. Geography topics taught at KS1 are:

  • Locational knowledge
  • Place knowledge
  • Human and physical geography
  • Geographical skills and fieldwork

Locational knowledge covers towns and cities, place knowledge covers different ecosystems around the world and human and physical geography covers climate, transport, the water cycle, rocks, rivers, weather and seasons and volcanoes and mountains.