Humanities
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At Shrubland Street, geography and history are called Humanities and are taught weekly. What people do, what they have done, where they do it and why they do it there are questions posed and explored by pupils, at first on a local level right up to a global level, by the time they leave ready for secondary school. Alongside the Humanities curriculum is Shrubland Street’s Adventure Curriculum, which aims to add a splash of brave and derring-do into the mix.
Through play, art, models, songs, stories and games, our youngest pupils recognise, identify and observe features in their locality and environment, as well as describe how things change over time. Trips to local places, such as farms, forests and factories are enjoyed, alongside hosting visitors with stories to share.
Later, following the Connected Geography and History Scheme, Key Stage 1 pupils begin to describe, compare and contrast, classify and explain things in the wider region and the recent past. They begin to undertake local fieldwork and research and enjoy residential trips to Dunfield House.
In Key stage 2 following the Connected Geography and History Scheme, pupils reflect on the big geographical and historical questions on a variety of levels. They begin to explain, speculate, hypothesise and make new connections and begin to make balanced, informed judgements. They present their work in a variety of ways and enjoy field work set in a number of different places, as well as orienteering and kayaking.
From making mini-islands in reception to planting real trees in our local woods, from making models of drainage basins to paddling down a real river in a kayak, the humanities aim to give our pupils a love of their environment, a curiosity about places and the past and a few adventures on the way.
Geography Curriculum: intent
The study of geography involves our pupils exploring the relationship and interactions between people and the environments in which they live and upon which they and all life on Earth depends. Many of the pupils who now attend our school will live to see the next century and inhabit a world of 11 billion people. The many opportunities and challenges that will arise during their lifetime will be very much about geography at personal, national and global scales. What we intend pupils to learn in geography reflects this throughout the curriculum.
History Curriculum: Intent
Connected History has been very carefully designed and resourced to provide teachers with a coherent, progressive and rigorous learning programme for Years 1–6 which will engage and motivate pupils and encourage them to see the world through the eyes of young historians.
Many pupils in primary education today will live to see the next century and the content and approach to learning adopted in the Connected History programme recognises this. It seeks to identify the most relevant and meaningful aspects of the subject content of the National Curriculum in history to explore in depth, rather than providing a more traditional approach that attempts a fully comprehensive coverage at the expense of subject rigour and the development of core subject concepts and skills.
