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St John's Highbury Vale CE Primary School

Humanities

Humanities

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At St John’s Highbury Vale we believe the Humanities curriculum should inspire a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people. Our curriculum helps develop our children’s critical thinking and allows their ability to question and evaluate analytically flourish. We want our children to feel inspired by their exploration of a range of cultures, time periods and the physical world and use this to complement their learning in other areas of the curriculum.

Humanities

Home > Learning  > Subjects > Humanities

Humanities

At St John’s Highbury Vale we believe the Humanities curriculum should inspire a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people. Our curriculum helps develop our children’s critical thinking and allows their ability to question and evaluate analytically flourish. We want our children to feel inspired by their exploration of a range of cultures, time periods and the physical world and use this to complement their learning in other areas of the curriculum.

Through inspirational enrichment topic days, lessons, prior knowledge and our children’s curiosity, we develop their understanding of British history and geography, as well as that of the wider world.

We provide children with the opportunity to advance their skills of inquiry, help them to understand and use key historical vocabulary and concepts, provide opportunities for making and doing, deliver reading and writing across the humanities curriculum, as well as teach new skills.

In our curriculum, we equip our children with the skills to ask perceptive questions, think critically, consider evidence, develop opinions and make judgement.

We use our local area and trips to allow children opportunities to conduct fieldwork, collect and analyse their own data and increase their knowledge of the physical and human worlds and their influence on each other; as well as teach facts and information for deeper understanding and knowledge.