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
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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
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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
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