Since returning to school after the holidays Humanities and Social Sciences staff have been working hard to ensure that all students are re-familiarised with the routine that they should expect in each of their lessons in these subjects. These range from following the schools “Keys to Success” to being able to access engaging and exciting teaching and learning activities throughout their lessons. During my visits to lessons within the faculty this week, it has been excellent to see how well students have settled back into these routines. Examples of this include group work within a year 9 geography lesson, an excellent knowledge recapping Q&A session within a year 7 history lesson and empowerment of students for forthcoming exams within a year 11 economics lesson. Personally, I have also enjoyed reestablishing these routines and trying new teaching and learning techniques with my own students. For example, in a year 10 Childcare lesson this week on weaning, students were given information on a stage of weaning and had to summarise this in five words and three pictures. Then, using these words and pictures only, they had to teach the other students. It was excellent to see that students had clearly learned what they had read and processed, as they taught others with accuracy. Thank you to all students who engaged so well in Humanities and Social Sciences lessons this week!