Autumn 1

Beside the Seaside

Local area study

Children will learn about: 

• Name and locate significant places in their locality (Lancashire – Blackpool, St Anne’s, Formby etc.)
• To make observations about features that give places their character
• Name and locate significant places in the UK

Children will develop the skills of: 

• To use a map to identify places in Lancashire
• To ask and answer simple geographical questions when investigating the seaside
• To recognise how people sometimes affect the environment
• To use simple compass directions as well as locational and directional knowledge when describing features and routes
• To describe similarities and differences between seaside towns and our own hometowns