The Ridgeway School - Inspiring learners for their future

Humanities

The Humanities faculty at The Ridgeway School is an integral part of a highly successful school. We offer an exciting, demanding and highly rewarding environment in which to work. We are a professional, hard working team but also pride ourselves on being friendly and supportive

The Humanities faculty at The Ridgeway is made up of a combination of the Geography, History, Religious Studies and Government/Politics departments. As well as a Head of Faculty there are also subject leaders for each department. The faculty is a good mix of experienced and more recently qualified staff who work effectively together.

At KS3, Geography, History and Religious Studies are taught in three Banded groups (A,B and C) with students having two to three hours of each subject across the two week timetable. All subjects offer well planned courses following the National Curriculum guidelines. Although as a faculty we recognize the importance of maintaining the integrity of our separate subjects we work very closely together in a number of areas including assessment, curriculum content and extra curricular activities.

At KS4 Geography, History and Religious Studies are offered at GCSE level. Every year well over half of The Ridgeway students opt to follow one of our GCSE courses.

At KS5 Geography, History, RS (Philosophy & Ethics) and Government /Politics are offered at both AS and A2 level.

Our students have enjoyed great examination success at both GCSE and A level with results being regularly among the best in the school. Our subjects are taught in specialist teaching rooms. We are very well equipped in terms of texts, teaching resources and specialist equipment. ICT is integrated into teaching wherever possible. The use of ICT in teaching and learning is greatly enhanced by the use of interactive whiteboards & ICT projectors in all rooms.

We are increasingly aiming to offer joint enrichment activities reflecting the close relationship between the different subjects. The faculty is also keen to make a significant contribution to wider school life. For instance in the faculty runs a ‘Holocaust Day’ for all year 9 students which aims to show the value of our subjects in helping students to understand issues relating to prejudice, rights and responsibility.

Andy Lanigan

Head of Faculty

September 2009/2010

Homework Policy

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PDF History Homework Policy