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Year 1

Local area: where do we live?

6 lessons

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  • Diversity
  • Economic activity
  • Human processes
  • Land use and settlement
  • Local area
  • Natural resources
  • Physical processes

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This unit investigates the area around school and home by identifying local features, exploring buildings, using simple maps, collecting data on how we travel to school, and describing familiar routes using basic geographical vocabulary.

This unit builds on pupils’ earlier study of their school by extending their understanding of place to the wider local area. Its placement enables pupils to begin working with simple maps, using familiar locations to develop early mapping skills such as identifying features and interpreting symbols. By exploring geography at a slightly broader scale, this unit supports progression toward comparing distant places later in the curriculum and lays a foundation for more complex spatial thinking.

  1. Our homes
  2. Our local area
  3. The street outside our school
  4. Buildings and features near our school
  5. A survey of how we get to school
  6. Mapping our journey to school

  • Some knowledge of the local area through first-hand experience.
  • Some experience of using aerial photographs, maps and plans of the school grounds.
  • Some experience of fieldwork and of making models and maps.
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