Mr. Sulayman           Mr.Abdallah                Mr. Saleem

Welcome to the Year 8 Humanities Site!

This site offers a comprehensive overview of our Year 8 Humanities curriculum for the academic year 2023/24. It is designed to work in harmony with our Google Classroom, where you'll find detailed weekly lessons, resources, and assignments.

As we move through the year, this site will be regularly updated with important information, including assessment schedules and key dates. Please make sure to check both this site and Google Classroom for the latest updates and resources.

1) Time Management: Students are expected to take greater responsibility for managing their time and meeting deadlines. While progress will be closely monitored, and support will be offered if needed, it's essential for everyone to do their best to adhere to all deadlines.

2) Academic Honesty: Integrity is key in all academic work. Students must maintain academic honesty in every aspect of their studies.

3) Independent Learning: Students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning journey, consistently demonstrating initiative and responsibility in their studies.

4) Active Participation: Engagement in class discussions and activities is crucial for a deeper understanding of the material. Students are expected to contribute thoughtfully and actively participate in all classroom activities.

5)Respectful Collaboration: Working effectively with peers is an essential part of the learning experience. Students must show respect towards others' ideas and work collaboratively to achieve common goals, fostering a positive and inclusive learning environment.

Skills 

In Humanities we will be working to help students develop in the seven following key areas: 

• Research -  Formulate appropriate research questions.  Locate, select, organize and record relevant information from a range of print and multimedia resources. 

• Analysis - Identify perspectives and complexities, interpret data and information to make connections and recognise relationships, patterns and trends. 

• Evaluation - Evaluate sources within subject context, make connections, assess importance of features and/ or events. Evaluate judgments, decisions and arguments. 

• Communication - Select varied and appropriate communication methods (including diagrams, short written responses and longer essays) to effectively describe and  explain specific subject content. Construct evidence based arguments that demonstrate understanding. 

• Collaboration - Actively cooperate and engage in teamwork, developing interdependence. Showing awareness and respect for different viewpoints and learning approaches. 

• Reflection - Consider the benefits and challenges of working in both teams and independently. Examine how personal perspectives on an issue may change.  Identify skills learnt or improved during this process. 

• Subject literacy - Recall knowledge of and use subject specific terminology and vocabulary. 

Assessments

Assessment will take place throughout the academic year. Assessment will be undertaken in the following ways:

• Formal tests - notice will be given and areas for revision provided

• Informal classroom quizzes and checks - notice may be given, but sometimes will be delivered on an ad hoc basis

• Classwork and participation - all engagement and tasks allocated for completion during class time can be used to further provide the teacher with information about an individual student's competency and progress

Important

• All day to day communication with students takes place in the Google classrooms. Please accept any invites you have been sent to join classrooms.

• The below outline is an overview of the topics that we hope to cover over the course of the academic year.  Each term we will post a more detailed snapshot of activities and events.  Reminders will also be posted one week in advance of  any scheduled formal assessment .

• Students will be issued with a Boost log in -Boost contains the online text book and resources which provides the foundation for our geographical enquiry unit. 

Curriculum Guide 

The Curriculum Guide below gives a detailed outline of the topics and lessons to be covered throughout the academic year. 

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