enrichment day in HUMS
Last week we enjoyed our first enrichment day of the year with year 9 students immersing themselves in a range of humanities activities. We hosted debates on a range of ethical...
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Last week we enjoyed our first enrichment day of the year with year 9 students immersing themselves in a range of humanities activities. We hosted debates on a range of ethical...
Posted by Carly Osman
The week beginning 24th April was Humanities Week 2023 and the theme this year was ‘Being Human’. During Humanities lessons, key stage three completed some tasks that focused...
Posted by Stephanie Knowles
The Humanities Student Leaders meet every Friday in F5 to work on creating fun, interesting activities of our Humanities lessons. At the moment, we are creating a variety of...
Posted by Sarah Brown
Recently the Year 11 history students visited the The Doctors Show, an interactive performance that tells the story of the development of health and medicine, directly related to...
Posted by Richard Dowty
It has been a pleasure to be teaching history again this half term to year 7 and recently I set my class the task of creating their own Motte and Bailey castles, which were...
Posted by James Burley
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...
Posted by James Burley
Little did I know that when I was appointed as Head of History in 1991, I would still be at the school 30 years later. So having reached this landmark I thought it time to retire...
Posted by Roger Newbold
The Spring term is coming to an end, a term where Humanities, and other departments have had to experiment and explore lots of different ways of learning. Throughout these few...
Posted by Sandra Kinghorn
It was great to pop in to a Year 10 Geography lesson to see students researching the devastating impact of hurricanes across the world and also hear such great discussions taking...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
From the profound to the trivial… that just about sums up the inaugural “Festival of Humanities” which was held last week on July 2nd-4th in the quad at lunchtimes in glorious...
Posted by Roger Newbold
Students enjoyed developing their artistic flare alongside geographical knowledge in the geography craft session where they mapped out the world’s continents using string with playdoh landmarks to add on.
On our first Enrichment Day, the Year 10 GCSE dance students took part in excellent dance workshops with industry professionals. They had a look at various dance styles, from...
Year 10 MFL students had fun putting their language learning into practice when they ordered their breakfast in the target language in a French and Spanish restaurant scenario! As...