Humanities

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curriculum intent

The Humanities curriculum at Ebbsfleet encourages learners to respect and understand the world around them and  equips them with the necessary skills to inquire into historical, contemporary, geographical, political, social,  economic, religious, technological and cultural factors that impact our lives and the world around us.

In Humanities, students engage with exciting, stimulating and personally relevant topics and  issues. Humanities allows students to study sensitive and personally challenging topics that require careful consideration in a safe and responsible learning environment. The study of Humanities helps students to critically appreciate the diversity of human culture, attitudes  and beliefs. Our Humanities subjects are important for helping students to recognise that content and  methodology can be debatable and controversial, and for practising the tolerance of uncertainty. 

In History, our curriculum aims to develop a passion and enthusiasm for History amongst students, and help students to appreciate the significance of the topics they study. Across the study of History at Ebbsfleet, an ambitious scheme of learning in line with the National Curriculum ensures students have the opportunity to encounter a broad range of historical topics that promotes the diversity of opportunities within History, and to broaden their spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding. The curriculum is designed to allow students to provide students with a chronological understanding, showing students how the topics studied fit within the context of history, supporting students to understand the key turning points in History.

Students should be taught using a wide range of approaches to learning, building on a range of historical skills to ensure that students are confident and independent learners and can develop their written and verbal communication skills.

In Geography at Ebbsfleet Academy we want to create a safe environment where pupils feel respected and are ready to learn in each lesson. Our young geographers will gain wide-ranging knowledge of relevant global issues on a local, national and global scale. Through human geography, they will learn in depth about reasons for migration & the impacts that occur due to these movements, the catastrophic impacts of exploitation of resources and the ever changing world through the lens of globalisation. Through physical geography, we look at our evolving planet at a range of scales and learn about earthquakes in the USA, volcanoes, tropical storms in the Philippines, rivers and our beautiful UK coastlines. Our geographers will gain skills  including evaluation skills, communication skills, mathematical skills and become enquirers and critical thinkers. This knowledge and  skills will provide our young geographers with a tool kit to become principled and engaged global citizens to ensure they shine bright in their futures.

At Ebbsfleet Academy, Religious Studies plays a vital role in the moral, cultural and spiritual development of our students. By exploring the global history of human spirituality students gain an appreciation for the role religious thought has played in shaping our modern, multicultural society. Students will also engage with the spiritual lives and experiences which give meaning to many people around the world, allowing our learners to reflect on their own understanding of life’s meaning.

topic overview

Module 1

Who are the British?
UK and local history

Module 2

What can we learn from different civilisations?

Module 3

How did the final foreign conquest change Britain?

Module 4

Clash between the West and East: why and what were the Crusades?

Module 5

Women in the War of the Roses

Module 6

The Tudors: a religious rollercoaster?

Module 1

UK and local

Module 2

Across the world

Module 3

Weather and climate

Module 4

Population and migration

Module 5

Deserts and drought

Module 6

Polar and Taiga forests

Module 1

What do we believe? Local and UK

Module 2

What do we believe? Religions across the world

Module 3

Leaders of religion

Module 4

Leaders of religion

Module 5

Christianity

Module 6

Hinduism

Module 1

How did the English end up killing their King?

Module 2

Did the British Empire cause ‘more harm than good’?

Module 3

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Module 4

The fight for civil rights: America and beyond

Module 5

Protest in the age of revolution
The fight for female emancipation

Module 6

What caused the Great War?

Module 1

Tectonics

Module 2

Resource pressures

Module 3

Climate change

Module 4

Global development

Module 5

UK rivers and geology

Module 6

Global and UK tourism

Module 1

Islam

Module 2

Buddhism

Module 3

Leaders of religion

Module 4

Leaders of religion

Module 5

Relationships and family

Module 6

Religion, crime and punishment

Module 1

Causes of WW1

Module 2

Shocking WW1
Blood, Guts and Misery: WW1 interpretations

Module 3

Long shadows WW1: causes of WW2

Module 4

Events of WW2

Module 5

Holocaust

Module 6

Days that shook the modern world

Module 1

Tropical storms and extreme weather

Module 2

Urban UK (London)

Module 3

Biomes and rainforest

Module 4

Urbanisation

Module 5

India and Mumbai

Module 6

UK coasts

Module 1

Philosophy, science and religion

Module 2

Philosophy, science and religion

Module 3

Sikhism

Module 4

Religion and life

Module 5

Judaism

Module 6

Religion, human rights and social justice

Module 1

Medicine through time: medieval and renaissance

Module 2

Medicine through time: industrial and modern

Module 3

Medicine through time: Britain on the Western front

Module 4

Weimar and Nazi Germany

Module 5

Weimar and Nazi Germany

Module 6

Weimar and Nazi Germany

Module 1

Urban issues and challenges

Module 2

Urban issues and challenges
Urban fieldwork

Module 3

Challenge of natural hazards

Module 4

Challenge of natural hazards
Challenge of resource management

Module 5

Challenge of resource management
UK physical landscapes

Module 6

UK physical landscapes
Physical fieldwork

Module 1

Sikhism beliefs

Module 2

Sikhism practices

Module 3

Christianity beliefs

Module 4

Christianity practices

Module 5

God and revelation

Module 6

Unit one revision

Module 1

Medicine through time: Britain on the Western front

Module 2

Cold War

Module 3

Cold War

Module 4

Cold War
Revision

Module 5

Revision

Module 6

Module 1

Urban issues and challenges

Module 2

Human fieldwork
Changing economic world

Module 3

Changing economic world

Module 4

Challenges of resource management
Issue evaluation

Module 5

Revision

Module 6

Module 1

Religion and revelation

Module 2

Religion and crime

Module 3

Religion and life

Module 4

Religion and war

Module 5

Revision

Module 6