Developing locational knowledge is an important aspect of teaching geography. It is essential to give children reference points on a world map, opportunities to revisit the locations studied previously and the chance to explore where places are in relation to one another.

The maps help children to become secure in their locational knowledge. They are like locational knowledge organisers, allowing children to record any knowledge relevant to the places in the units they are studying.

KS1
This set of maps gives children in each year group the chance to revisit prior learning about locational knowledge from their previous years at school. At the start of each school year, they receive the relevant map and add new locations studied throughout the year.

In Year 1, the children can use the map more as a point of reference. The countries are colour-coded and named in the key; children can match these up during their studies.

In Year 2, the map is colour-coded in line with the key, but children must use their knowledge and other mapping tools to help identify which countries studied are which, naming them in the key.

The KS1 maps show the names of the seven continents and five oceans, so the children can refer to them when needed.

KS2
This set of maps gives children in each year group the chance to revisit prior learning about locational knowledge from their previous years at primary school. At the start of each school year, they receive the relevant map and add new locations studied throughout the year.

The children need to use and develop their locational knowledge a little more. At the start of the year, the maps can be a retrieval tool, where the children label the continents and oceans of the world, but this might happen at any point the teacher deems appropriate.

Each year-group map contains prior locations studied for the children to refer to. They should add new locations studied by highlighting them with colours and then adding them to the key. Children might add significant lines such as the Equator, Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, along with any other details that may be useful.

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