Humanities
The Humanities are the academic disciplines that study human culture and the world, both in the present and the past. The Humanities also promote a spiritual, moral, social and cultural education of pupils through our varied curricula.
In Key Stage 3 the Humanities Faculty teaches Geography, History, Religious Studies and Life Skills (PHSE and Citizenship) as separate subjects. In Key Stage 4 the Faculty offers a variety of qualifications; GCSE Geography, GCSE History, GCSE Religious Studies, BTEC Travel and Tourism and BTEC Health and Social Care. The Faculty has eleven staff and the Director of Study is Mrs Rasul. Each department is led by a Subject Coordinator; Mrs Rasul (History), Mrs Woodhouse (Life Skills), Mrs Nuttall (Religious Studies) and Mrs Senior (Geography).
In Key Stage 4, a variety of activities are organised to meet the needs of pupils. For example; visits to local care homes and hosting nursery children for BTEC Health and Social Care; visiting tourist information centres, travel agents and local attractions for BTEC Travel and Tourism; field trips to Sport City and the Peak District for GCSE Geography and the Year 10 Democracy and Internet Safety Day for KS4 Life Skills.
Geography
Year 7:
The Disaster World - Plate tectonics, earthquakes and volcanoes
World Knowledge - Atlas skills and the map of the world
The Map World - O.S. map skills
The Weather World - UK weather, extreme weather and flooding
Year 8:
Urban Issues
Population
Rivers and Flooding
Coasts and Erosion
Development and Economic Activity
Climate Change
Year 9: GCSE Geography (AQA) – 3 year course
Living with the physical environment - (a) Challenge of natural hazards and (b) The Living World
Challenges in the Human Environment - (a) Urban issues and challenges including fieldwork unit (Regeneration of Sportcity)
Year 10:
GCSE Geography (AQA) – 2 year course
Living with the physical environment - (a) Challenge of natural hazards and (b) The Living World
Challenges in the human environment - (c) Challenge of resource management and (a) Urban issues and challenges Including fieldwork unit (Regeneration of Sportcity)
Year 11:
GCSE Geography (AQA) – 2 year course
Living with physical environment - (c) Physical landscapes in the UK including fieldwork unit (changing river profile)
Challenges in the human environment - (b) The changing economic world
Geographical applications - (a) Pre-release booklet
Http://Filestore.Aqa.Org.Uk/Resources/Geography/Specifications/AQA-8035-SP-2016.PDF
History
Year 7:
History Skills Unit
Local History in the Moravian Settlement and multicultural Britain
The Middle Ages 1066-1500
Tudors 1500-1603 (Henry VIII and religious changes)
Year 8:
Tudors 1500-1603 (Queen Elizabeth I)
African Americans including the slave trade and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement
World War One 1914-1918
Year 9:
World War Two 1939-1945
GCSE History Course starts in January 2018: Medicine Through Time c.1250 to present day
Year 10:
Edexcel GCSE History - 2 year course
Thematic Study and Historic Environment: Medicine in Britain c. 1250 to present day including the British Sector of the Western Front, 1914-1918 focusing on injuries, treatment and the trenches. Written examination: Paper 1 - 30% of the qualification.
British Depth Study: Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588. Written examination: Paper 2 - 40% of the qualification.
Year 11:
Edexcel GCSE History - 2 year course
Period Study: The American West c1835-c1895. Written examination: Paper 2 - 40% of the qualification.
Modern Depth Study: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939. Written examination: Paper 3 - 30% of the qualification.
Religious Studies
Year 7: The Island
Introduction to RS
Birth Customs
Codes for Living
Sources of Authority
Festivals
Denominations
Year 8:
What is good and what is challenging about following a faith?
Spirituality (including Spirited Arts competition)
Buddhism
Year 9:
Peace and Conflict (including Arts and Minds competition)
Freedom Writers/Remembering the Holocaust
What can we do about refugees?
Return to the Island
Year 10: Edexcel GCSE Specification B - 2 year course
Matters of Life and Death
Crime and Punishment
Religious Beliefs
Marriage and Family Life
Year 11: Edexcel GCSE Specification B - 2 year course
Peace and Conflict
Living the Religious Life
Revision
Life Skills
Year 7:
Transition - Settling into Secondary School
MYRIAD .B Course - Mindfulness Programme
Citizenship - Demoncracy
Bullying (including E-Safety)
Health and Hygiene (including Puberty)
Drugs - Smoking
Careers
Personal Finance
Health and Safety
Year 8:
Sex and Relationships Education (including HPV Vaccination)
Child Sexual Exploitation
Careers (including Step into the NHS competition)
Drugs - Alcohol
Citizenship - Local Council and Community
Personal Finance
Year 9:
Careers (including Options)
Personal Finance
Drugs - Cannabis
Sex and Relationships Education (including STIs)
Human Rights
Government and Politics
Year 10:
Drugs (including Legal Highs)
Wellbeing (including Mental Health and Mindfulness)
Sex and Relationships Education (including Female Genital Mutilation)
Careers (including Work Experience, CV Writing, Applying for Jobs)
Year 11:
Careers (including College Applications)
Health
Personal Finance
Wellbeing (including Mindfulness)
BTEC Level 2 First Award in Travel and Tourism
Year 10:
Unit 2 - UK Travel and Tourism Destinations
Unit 1 - The UK Travel and Tourism Sector
Year 11:
Unit 4 - International Travel and Tourism Destinations
Unit 5 - Factors Affecting Worldwide Travel and Tourism
Year 10 and 11: BTEC Level 2 Tech Award in Health and Social Care
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