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
These subject leader cards fit lanyard holders that are 86mm wide by 61mm high and can be printed smaller or larger depending on your requirements.
They can be used by children in class who are considered ‘experts’ in each subject. This allows them to circulate the classroom and support other children in their ‘expert’ subject area.
These are available in the following subjects as part of the pack:
Reading
Writing
Maths
History
Geography
Science
Art
DT
PE
RE
PSHE
Spanish
French
Computing
Music
The words ‘Author of the Month’ to be displayed in a school that celebrates different authors from around the world each month.
The lettering is available in a .png format. This means that it can be downloaded and copied into a word processing or desktop publishing document and resized.
Original sizings are suitable for printing on A3, but can also be downsized to A4 to suit your need.
For use by subject leaders and class teachers of history in the planning of a history curriculum.
This approach has been tried and tested with in-person, school-to-school support by our primary team.
Organised into four sections:
Long-term Planning
Medium-term Planning
Oracy
Cross-Curricular Links
The document encourages you to consider all of those questions that will be asked of your subject in an OFSTED inspection.
You might also find these useful:
History Subject Knowledge Guides
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12965344
Our map progression document for geography is a clear and visual way of ensuring visual progression for mapwork across the curriculum.
With this document, teachers can clearly see the expectation when completing maps of locations and places around the world.
The first page of this document shows a visual representation of maps around the world. The second page of the document is a bullet-pointed, written version of the document.
This resources is great for subject leaders of geography, and would be great if used alongside our geography skills progression document, which can be found at:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953540
These end of unit assessment quizzes are a great way to challenge children’s understanding of a unit of work at the end of a history unit in KS2.
These assessment quizzes cover a wide-range of KS2 history units, including:
Ancient Egyptians
Ancient Greeks
Ancient Maya
Ancient Sumer
Anglo-Saxons in Britain
Bronze Age Britain
Changing Power of British Monarchy
Early Islamic Civilisation
Indus Valley
Iron Age Britain
Kingdom of Benin
Romans in Britain
Shang Dynasty
Stone Age Britain
Industrial Revolution in Britain
Vikings in Britain
World War II
Similarly, all of these come with answer sheets to support teacher feedback and marking.
For additional support with your history curriculum you might also like:
History Subject Knowledge Guides
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12965344
History Skills Progression Document
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953203
History Vocabulary Flashcards
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12953426