Autumn

Topic - Our School in Bromley

Key Skills/Knowledge

• Begin to recognise familiar places in their local area 

• Use maps to gather information about the local area 

• Locate landmarks/places on a map 

• Use maps to plan and plot a route 

• Use simple compass directions (NESW) 

• Use aerial photographs to recognise basic human and physical features 

• Recognise basic map symbols and begin to understand the need for a key 

• Use simple fieldwork skills to study the geography of the school 

• Make simple observations about the geography of the classroom and school 

• Ask simple geographical questions 

• Explore housing types 

• Explore geographical issues through discussion 

• Suggest improvements to the environment 

Key Vocabulary

• Compass, North, South, East, West
• aerial view
• key, label, title
• 4-point, direction
• plan, observe
• fieldwork
• observe
• photograph
• environment
• travel, route, transport, distance, direction, position
• frequency table
• past, present
• map, map symbols, OS (Ordnance Survey)
• local area, school, home, address
• NESW, (any key words specific to this locality)
• locate (find!)
• street map 
• record
• safety
• map symbols
• house/houses/hosuing, offices, business, shops, stream, river, forest
• detached, semi-detached, terraced, cottage, bungalow, flats, caravan
• village, town, city, county, country, continent
• council
• improve.  

Topic - Plants

Key Skills/Knowledge

Key Vocabulary

• Trees - deciduous, evergreen, ash, birch, beech, rowan, common lime, oak, sweet chestnut, horse chestnut, apple, willow, sycamore, fir, pine , holly, etc 
• Wild flowering plants - cleavers, coltsfoot, daisy, dandelion, garlic mustard, mallow, mugwort, plantain, red clover, self heal, shepherd’s purse, sorrel, spear thistle, white campion, white deadnettle and yarrow. 
• Garden plants – crocus, daffodil, bluebells, etc 
• Parts of plants – roots, branch, trunk, stalk, leaf, flower, petal, seeds, bulbs and twigs 

Topic  - Seasonal Changes

Key Skills/Knowledge

Key Vocabulary

• Seasons; spring, summer, autumn, winter 
• Year, months, days 
• Hot, warm, mild, cold 
• Sunny 
• Cloudy 
• Rain, sleet, snow, hail, thunder, lightning, rainbow 
• Wet, damp, dry 
• Windy, breezy, gust 
• Temperature 
• Degrees Celsius 
• Thermometer 
• Weather vane 
• Anemometer