Humanities

What We Do?

Within Brooke Weston Geography we engage students in exploring the physical and human processes that shape the world around us. Through a range of classroom learning, fieldwork and GIS, our units of ‘Big Geographical Questions’, ‘Global Populations’ and ‘Our Hazardous World’ to name a few, encourage curiosity, promote spatial awareness and inspire critical thinking to better understand local places and the wider world.

What Are We Proud Of?

We are proud of our broad and ambitious curriculum from which the passionate and committed teachers bring Geography to life for all students. The transferable skills we teach are valuable to students even beyond the classroom, ensuring preparation for further study and future careers. We take pride in our young Geographers building a strong awareness of sustainability and becoming global citizens.

What Our Ambitions Are?

We are committed to expanding Geography beyond the classroom providing students with more opportunities to engage with the subject in real-world contexts. Enhancing outdoor learning will support the development of practical geographic skills as well as build stronger connections to the local landscapes. We hope to find more geographical competitions which will encourage creativity and deepen learning an fun and challenging ways.

What We Do?

Within Brooke Weston History we inspire students to explore the past in order to better understand the world they live in today. Our curriculum spans the mediaeval, early modern and modern periods, allowing students to encounter diverse peoples, places and ideas across global, national and local histories. Through studying themes such as power and authority, conflict and cooperation, society and culture, and progress and change, students learn how and why the world has developed as it has. Alongside this, we place great emphasis on historical skills – asking questions, evaluating evidence, analysing interpretations and building strong arguments – so that students come to see not only what happened in the past, but how and why it matters.

What Are We Proud Of?

We are proud of the breadth and depth of our curriculum, which enables students to study diverse histories from across the world and across time. We are equally proud of the critical thinking, research and communication skills that our students develop, especially through the opportunity to pursue their own interests in A-Level coursework. Above all, we value the way History supports students not only in their academic studies but also in their ability to engage thoughtfully with the wider world.

What Our Ambitions Are?

We aim to nurture curious and questioning historians who carry a love of learning about the past beyond the classroom. Our ambition is for students to leave us with a strong appreciation of how the world has developed and why it functions as it does today. We believe this understanding, combined with the skills of analysis and empathy that History provides, is essential for becoming active, responsible and reflective members of a democratic society.

What We Do?

Within Social Sciences at Brooke Weston, we explore how individuals, groups and institutions shape, and are shaped by, society. Politics, Sociology and Psychology curriculums develops disciplined thinking, ethical awareness and evidence-based judgement through analytical reading, discussion, research methods and application to contemporary and historical contexts.

What Are We Proud Of?

We are proud of a broad and ambitious curriculum, brought to life by passionate and expert teachers who make the social sciences rigorous and accessible for all learners. The transferable skills we cultivate - critical analysis, quantitative and qualitative reasoning, clear written and spoken communication, and the evaluation of competing approaches and ideas - equip students for further study and diverse careers. We also value our students’ development as informed, reflective citizens with a strong sense of social responsibility.

What Our Ambitions Are?

We are committed to widening opportunities for students to apply learning to real-world contexts and to deepen their engagement with current debates and research. We aim to strengthen scholarly habits - independent reading, academic writing and data literacy - and to expand enrichment and extra-curricular activities that encourage creativity, intellectual curiosity and resilient, critical thinking. Our focus remains on high expectations, inclusive attainment and sustained progression for every student.

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Our Curriculum Humanities	27th Jun 2025	Download