Within our department, we believe learning happens as much outside of the classroom as within it.
We organise trips and opportunities so that our students can appreciate that History and Politics is being both made and remade around them. Crucially, they must be part of remaking it.
See some images below of what we've done
Year 7 students plan and stage their own protest as part of a study of late 19th Century Yiddish East End protest songs with Queen Mary University.
Year 8 Students use VR in a project responding to a Michael Rakowitz's exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Sixth Form Students vote in a whole school Mock Election.
Year 10 Students examine Lunn's Tower at Kenilworth castle.
Year 11 Students look out at the Elizabethan Gardens at Kenilworth castle.
Year 11 students walk through Mortimer's Tower on to the Tiltyard at Kenilworth castle.
Sixth Form Students examine stories of migration at the new Migration Museum in Lewisham
Year 7s sing protest songs and stage their own protest as part of a study of late 19th Century Yiddish East End protest songs with QM University.
Sixth Form Students listen to experts talk about global politics at our Politics Residential.
Year 8 Students create art in response to a Michael Rakowitz's exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery.
Year 9s debate as part of a workshop at SOAS university on Partition.
Year 8s win the Women's History Network competition by creating posters campaigning against immigration detention at Yarl's Wood.
A Year 12 Student dresses up as a host in order to win a 'Come Dine with Me' competition as part of our Politics Residential.