Yearly Overview-Year Five- Geography
Focus
Areas to cover
Resources
Relief maps: identify elevated areas, depressions and river basins.
Compare aerial photographs and maps. Identify the ways in which maps
represent and simplify the real world.
Autumn One
Spatial Sense
Read maps and globes using latitude, longitude, coordinates and degrees.
Scale: measure distances using map scales.
Marta Segal Block, Reading Maps (First
Guide to Maps), Heinemann Library, 2009
http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know
page 71-79.
Identify the Prime Meridian, the 180° line (International Date Line) and the
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Autumn Two
Mountains
Peaks and Ranges from around the world including:
 The Alps
 The Himalayas
 The Andes
 The Appalachian Mountains
 The Rocky Mountains
 The Atlas Mountains
 Mount Kilimanjaro
What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know
page 79-83 - Mountains of the World
Yearly Overview-Year Five- Geography
Focus
Areas to cover
Resources
British Geography (East Anglia, The Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber)
Spring One
British
Geography
(East Anglia, The
Midlands,
Yorkshire &
Humberside)
East Anglia
 The Angles from northern Germany
 Weather in East Anglia: colder eastern winds, little rain, warm
summers
 Straight, man-made rivers built to drain marshland connect with lakes
called ‘broads’
 City of Cambridge and Port of Felixstowe
 Sutton Hoo
The Midlands
 Birmingham, Solihull and Bourneville
 The Grand Union Canal
 Mining and farming
 The Peak District
Yorkshire and the Humber
 The Yorkshire Dales
 Sheffield- famous for producing steel
 The City of York
 Leeds and Bradford
 Ribblehead Viaduct
 The Humber Bridge
What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know
page 84-94 British Geography
Various children’s atlases and maps
Yearly Overview-Year Five- Geography
Focus
Areas to cover
Australia
 Location- below the Equator
 Major cities including Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth,
Cairns, Darwin and Brisbane.
 The Outback
 Uluru, or Ayers Rock
 Aboriginal People
 Transportation and the Gold Rush
 Australian Animals
Spring Two
Australia, New
Zealand and the
South Pacific
New Zealand
 North and South Islands
 Volcanoes and Geysers
 Maori People
 Animals including the kiwi, the national symbol of New Zealand
The South Pacific
 Melanesia
 Micronesia
 Polynesia
Resources
What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know
page 95-102
John Woodward, Geography: A Visual
Encyclopaedia, Dorling Kindersley, 2013
Miroslav Sasek, This is Australia, Universe
Publishing, 2009
Yearly Overview-Year Five- Geography
Focus
Summer One
Explorers
Areas to cover
James Cook
 A sailor and scientist
 Making maps more accurate
 Round-the-world voyage began in 1768
 Went to Tahiti to watch Venus journey across the sun
 Explored further and reached New Zealand, made a map of the coast
line
 Landed on the East coast of Australia naming the land ‘New Wales’
 Travelled with the botanist Joseph Banks who wrote about his first
encounter with a kangaroo
 Further discoveries include New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean and
South Georgia in the Southern Atlantic
Resources
What Your Year 5 Child Needs to Know,
page 103-106
Rebecca Levene, Captain Cook, Usbourne
Publishing Ltd, 2005
Content of this term to be set according to the needs of the children and the
areas within which they live.
Summer Two
Local Study

Use fieldwork to observe, measure and record human and physical
features in the local area. In doing so, use a range of geographical
methods, including sketch maps, plans, graphs and digital technology
to gain understanding.
Relevant local resources