Year 3 Geography – What’s the Score? (UK Counties and Cities)

Take pupils on a journey across the UK with this engaging Year 3 geography unit, What’s the Score? This block of learning explores UK cities, counties, and regions through the theme of sport, helping pupils develop key geographical skills while making meaningful connections to real-world locations.

Through a series of carefully structured lessons, pupils will learn to name and locate UK countries and major cities, understand the concept of counties, and explore how people travel around the UK. Using maps, atlases, and digital tools, they will develop their ability to identify human and physical features, strengthening their geographical knowledge in an interactive and engaging way.

By the end of the unit, pupils will have a strong understanding of the UK’s geography and how different locations connect through transport links and sporting venues. They will also gain practical map skills, including planning routes and using a key to label locations, supporting their wider geographical awareness.

This unit aligns with the National Curriculum for geography and encourages enquiry-based learning, helping pupils to ask and answer geographical questions in a meaningful way. Part of our comprehensive geography scheme, it supports progression across the primary years, building essential knowledge and skills that pupils can apply in future learning.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• Name and locate the UK’s countries and some major cities
• Identify human and physical features in the UK
• Understand what a country and county are
• Plan a route across different locations in the UK
• Use maps and keys to locate and label places

This unit is ideal for developing pupils’ curiosity about the world around them, encouraging them to think critically about places and how they connect. With a strong focus on practical geography skills, What’s the Score? provides a solid foundation for further geographical learning.