Humanities
Humanities at Ryvers
What?
At Ryvers, we recognise the importance of learning both Geography and History; combined and known as 'Humanities' at our school. By joining these two subject areas, we are able to offer the children much more engaging and exciting topic-based lessons designed around specific themes. Through this, we believe that we can instill a love of learning about, and discovery of, the world around them and how it came to be.
Why?
Our thematic approach centres around our continents work; our classes and phases throughout the school were chosen to provide our children with a greater understanding of the continents of the world and animals found within them. We believe that by taking a whole school approach to this, the language and knowledge is embedded from Nursery through to Year 6. For example, 'The Great Outdoors' is explored in Reception - a unit that exposes the children to mapping skills, different landscapes and geographical features - from which the learning is built upon later in their school life - learning about Rainforests in Year 3, further map work in Year 6 and a rivers and mountains unit in Year 5.
Humanities Curriculum Overviews 2024-2025
Knowledge Categories
The knowledge categories for geography and history are the general themes that are covered throughout each geography and history unit that is taught. This helps our pupils to link all of their past and current learning together as they learn about overarching themes (for example conflict in different periods of history, or physical processes that occur across the world) rather than seeing individual periods in time for history or just certain parts of the world in geography as separate events.
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