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HUMANITIES
Our aim in teaching History and Geography throughout the school is for the children to develop an interest in, and an understanding of, the changes and developments in the world around them. We believe in working from a child's own experiences e.g. tracing back through their family, finding out about where they live, finding out about their school, and then widening this to include the nearest town and places they visit.
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Through this type of work the children develop the
skills needed to use reference systems and to extract relevant
information from different sources such as people, maps, objects and
places. School visits, either local or to places of special interest,
frequently form part of this work and every year a residential visit is
arranged for Year 5 and 6 pupils. In 2010 this was to Bendrigg Lodge
in Cumbria, a fully inclusive outdoor activity centre, (www.bendrigg.org.uk). In 2011 the trip was to Northumberland and in 2012 we are hoping to confirm the residential at "The Conway Centre" in North Wales. The Conway Centre is a large, short term, residential educational facility set in idyllic surroundings on the Island of Anglesey, North Wales. |
Through this type of work we encourage the children to develop an understanding of the consequences of the use and misuse of resources and the possibility of managing and protecting the environment. We hope to extend their range of experiences and encourage them to develop attitudes towards events, circumstances and people in the world around them and in the wider world, both past and present. Our guardianship scheme with the National Trust (Lyme Park) is a good example of this.
Lyme Park visit.