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Black History Month always provides an opportunity to celebrate black achievement and to reflect on issues affecting people of colour. Year 13 A Level History students have been...
On Friday 2nd October, year 10 students enjoyed a day of excitement, engagement and invigoration when they attended the year 10 Option immersion events run by the Humanities and...
The Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty welcomed back all year groups to lessons over the past week. It was particularly thrilling to see the new year 7, the new GCSE and A...
After an eight week period of physical distance, Year 12 students were able to enjoy their first face-to-face lesson with their humanities and social sciences teachers last week. ...
The recent pandemic has shown very clearly how political decisions taken by Government Ministers dominate our everyday experience and lives. It has also highlighted some...
Continue to Keep Yourself Busy with Your Family During Lockdown With the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Hopefully, some of you managed to achieve some of the challenges...
Seventy-five years ago, we celebrated Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) when fighting in Europe against Nazi Germany came to an end in World War Two. To allow the country to reflect...
Keep Yourself Busy with Your Family During Lockdown With the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty It can be difficult to find new things to do when you are stuck at home for...
Sociology has always been a subject that raises one key question; does it really apply to the world around us? Sociology at its heart is the study of society and all its aspects....
Hello, my name is Andrea. I am a year 10 student, and I decided to take psychology as one of my options for GCSE because I thought that it would be really interesting to learn...
Black History Month always provides an opportunity to celebrate black achievement and to reflect on issues affecting people of colour. Year 13 A Level History students have been focused on this for longer than one month as they study the struggle for African American civil rights as part of their A Level history course. Black History Month and the Black Lives Matter protests have certainly helped to give this a special resonance this term.
For Zeenat learning about the struggle for African Americans for equality “is extremely fitting as clearly black people are still victims of racism in the 21st century… our history course helps us in understanding how long black people have been prejudiced against” For Mahnoor the course has “increased my knowledge of the cruel treatment black people have faced”, whilst for Callum the course is “very interesting and is raising my awareness of change and struggles”, a comment echoed by Finley who is finding the course “fascinating and making me pay more attention to the Black Lives Matter Movement”.
We have currently reached the mid 1950s in our studies and students are excited about the prospect of learning more about the amazing Civil Rights Movement which burst on the scene with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the overturning of segregation at Little Rock High School.There will be many achievements to celebrate and also issues which have a current relevance to discuss.
