What Does Humanities look like at Central Primary?
At Central the Humanities AOLE seeks to-
- Awaken a sense of wonder, fire the imagination and inspire learners to grow in knowledge, understanding and wisdom.
- This Area encourages learners to engage with the most important issues facing humanity, including sustainability and social change, and help to develop the skills necessary to interpret and articulate the past and the present.
- The Area encompasses geography; history; religion, values and ethics; business studies and social studies. These disciplines share many common themes, concepts and transferable skills, while having their own discrete body of knowledge and skills.
What Matters Statements in Humanities
- WM1 Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future.
- WM2 Events and human experiences are complex, and are perceived, interpreted and represented in different ways.
- WM3 Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions.
- WM4 Human societies are complex and diverse, and shaped by human actions and beliefs.
- WM5 Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action.
Humanities in Central Primary School
Learners will be taught new skills, have support to practice and then be given opportunities to independently apply their knowledge skills and understanding through a range of contexts.
The subjects within this Area share many common themes, concepts and transferable skills, while also having their own discrete body of knowledge and skills. The content, concepts and skills outlined in this Area are interconnected. The disciplines in this Area provide a variety of lenses through which to view the human experience. The statements of what matters encourage a holistic approach to learning.
History
- develop an understanding of the discipline and its value
- develop understanding of, and respect for, the notion of truth and for people in the past
- develop an appreciation of the past on different scales, which allows learners to orientate themselves in time
- develop historical interpretation understanding and source-based skills
- develop rich content across the time periods, through which learners can develop an understanding of chronology through exploring cause and effect, change and continuity, similarity and difference, interpretations, the use of evidence and historical significance
- develop a rich context for exploring the concepts of governance, economy, power, leadership, diversity; culture, ethnicity, equality and inequality, justice, rights, conquest, social, political and economic ideologies, social organisation and structures, trade, agriculture and industry, power and protest, peace, conflict and cooperation, revolution, devolution and empire
- expose learners of all ages to a range of historical periods on a local, national and global scale, making the links and connections that support the development of a detailed chronological ‘map’ of the past.
Geography
- develop an understanding of the discipline and its value
- provide rich content for exploring physical and human landscapes, and a context for the causes and consequences of physical and human inter-relationships and interdependence which characterise our modern world
- provide a rich context for exploring the issues of sustainability, climate change, energy choices, nature, natural hazards and disasters and hazard risks, pollution, scarcity of natural resources, food security, population, identity, ethnicity, migration, settlements, globalisation, consumerism and trade, initiatives to tackle poverty, inequality and injustice, contrasts between countries at different levels of development
- equip learners with the skills to question, use and analyse maps, images, and Geographical Information Systems
- equip learners with the skills to formulate research questions, and to collect, manipulate and present data so they can evaluative and think critically about problems and issues
Religion, Values and Ethics in Central
Social Studies in Central
Progression in Humanities
- Increasing breadth and depth of knowledge
- Deepening understanding of the ideas and disciplines within areas of learning and experience
- Refinement and growing sophistication in the use and application of skills
- Making connections and transferring learning into new contexts
- Increasing effectiveness as a learner
List of possible learning experiences for Humanities at Central includes: –
- Visits to museums
- Opportunities to explore the local area
- Having fun outdoors.
- Learning through Forest Schools
- Recycling and thinking about carefully about waste.
- Helping others
- Helping our community- Big Bocs Bwyd
- Using natural resources.
- Exposure to artefacts and historical objects.
- Being involved in projects that help us to be Eco friendly
- Planting, caring and improving our school grounds
- Opportunities to read and use maps, atlases and globes
- Being exposed to music, art and writing from different cultures and time
- Welcoming visitors from different cultures, religions or time
- Having opportunity to see Media footage of global events
- Using the Sustainable Goals to enhance understanding of the wider world and closer community