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The Humanities Department is made up of the Geography, History, Religious Education and Sociology. The Department is based in Rooms 16, 18, 19 and 21.
In Key Stage 3 History and Geography and Religious Education are delivered through a lesson each per week. Students will usually be taught all three subjects by a single teacher.
At Key Stage 4, Geography, History and Sociology are offered as GCSE options delivered through three lessons per week. All students follow a GCSE short course in R.E,
In Key Stage Three students have three Humanities lessons each week. During the year they will complete units of work related to Geography, History and Religious Education.
In Key Stage Four the department offers the following courses
Students’ work and progress is assessed in a variety of ways while completing each unit of work. Home Learning and class work within a unit of work is marked and annotated by the teacher indicating where students have done well and what they could have improved. At the end of each unit students complete a formal assessment that results in a national curriculum level or GCSE grade being awarded with guidance on how they could improve. Students’ written and oral work will be awarded a grade for effort on a scale of 1 to 4.
In Key Stage Three students are set by ability. In Key Stage Four groups are mixed ability.
Students will be set home learning tasks in line with College policy. Student will be allowed a number of weeks to complete extended home learning activities.
Home learning activities will be related to the units of work listed in the course content section. Activities may include: research, model making, written tasks, activity sheet, completing class work while GCSE students will also complete coursework tasks.
It would be useful for students to have access to basic reference books e.g. an atlas and the internet. Students are reminded that the College’s Learning Resource Centre allows students internet access during breaks and after college hours.
