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

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.

Local area: where do we go to school?

All schools have a name so you can tell them apart from others.

helps you find the exact place of a building.

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Our school

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.