Geography Skills Progression Document

Our fully revised Geography Skills Progression Document is a useful planning document for class teachers and subject leaders in supporting their planning and mapping of geography through school.

This means that class teachers and subject leaders have a very clear progression for ensuring that each geographical-enquiry skill and geography concept are increasingly challenging throughout each year group.

This document also contains progression in fieldwork skills.

Our geography skills progression document maps out skills for the following geographical-enquiry skills:

• Describing
• Analysing, Comparing and Contrasting
• Researching
• Questioning
• Explaining and Understanding
• Knowing
• Remembering

It also takes into account the following geographical concepts, ensuring that these are progressive from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 2:

• Location and Place
• Scale and Space
• Human Geography
• Physical Geography
• Sustainability
• Interdependence
• People, Cultures, and Communities

The key skills are then mapped progressively from the Foundation Stage to Upper Key Stage 2, meaning that geographical-enquiry skills and geographical concepts becoming increasingly challenging throughout the respective keys stages.

Each of these progressions can be used as part of a learning objective or success criteria in geography lessons.

This is also a useful tool to support any conversation with OFSTED to show progression of geographical-enquiry skills.

You might also like our visual fieldwork progression document that shows what maps completed by children - and the expected level of content - at different year groups should like progressively through each year group.

History Skills Progression Document
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953203