Back into the routines in Humanities and Social Sciences
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...
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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
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!
Our Year 10 GCSE historians were enjoying developing their knowledge about the Cold War, one of the key elements of their GCSE course. Mr Dowty had planned a great lesson and was...
This week the year 11 Geography students visited the London Olympic Park to carry out their fieldwork for an important part of their coursework. The students studied the key...