A school is a place people go to for their education.

An address is the name of a place with a postcode and other information such as street and town names to help you locate where it is.

Our school

Geography

Our school from above

Our school in ten photos

Jobs in our school

Describing locations

Fieldwork: Autumn in the school grounds

This unit provides a foundation for 'Local area: Where do we live?', which extends geographical investigation to the immediate locality, and for 'Local area: routes and maps' which investigates a specific land use, play areas. It lays the foundation for fieldwork investigations in the local area in 'Local area: how is our place special?' and a contrasting non-European locality.

This unit builds on explorations of the local area in EYFS,  focusing on the school site as a place. It develops basic geographical vocabulary and simple mapwork and fieldwork skills.

Explore the school environment to identify features, describe locations using simple vocabulary, interpret aerial photos and observe seasonal change through early fieldwork.

Local area: where do we go to school?

An aerial photograph is a picture of an object or place that has been taken from above.

Investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking, and gathering information or data, is known as fieldwork.

A label is a word or phrase added to a map, a photograph or a diagram to identify a feature.

A ground level photograph is a picture of an object or place taken from the ground.

A job is regular work which is usually paid.

An interview means talking to people to gather information.

A question is something we can ask to find out information.

Locational language describes the location or place of something in relation to something else.

A map is a two-dimensional representation of an area, showing geographical features and where they are in relation to each other.

A route shows the starting point and end point of a journey, sometimes with stops in between.

The weather of a place is the day to day condition of the atmosphere, e.g. sunny, snowing, warm, etc.

The seasons are four times of year that have different weather and they are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking, and gathering information or data is known as fieldwork.

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