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Welcome to Social Subjects
• History• Geography• Religious, moral and philosophical
studies (RMPS)
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Social Subjects & RMPS in S3
• Time allocation• Staff• S3, The ‘bridging year’• Aim to increase challenge in S3. • Level 4 outcomes (perhaps level 3)• Beyond S3: National 4&5• Assessment & Reporting. Skills and
KU
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Working Individually and with others
cooperatively
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Skills and Assessment
• Your child will draw on and extend the knowledge and skills they have learned during S1/2. This will be assessed by a variety of means including:
• extended writing in the form of essays• co-operative group presentations• content and skills based tests• Self and peer assessment will be used
to identify next steps in learning.
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Skills and Assessment
There will be an added value Research Project to address the key purposes and aims of the course. This will mirror the National 4 Added Value Unit that pupils will undertake in S4.
This project will encompass some of the assessment principles of CfE which are breadth, challenge and application. The project will be sufficiently open and flexible to allow for personalisation and choice.
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Skills for Learning Life and Work
Literacy • 1. Reading- engaging with a variety of different texts and
language.• 2. Writing- progression of extended writing into formal essay
writing• 3. Listening and talking- Discussion skills, learning and
teaching others through group tasks, paired work.
Thinking skills • Thinking skills will be further developed in S3 by building on
the higher order skills of analysing and evaluating. This will prepare pupils for S4 and beyond.
Interpersonal Skills• Pupils will have the opportunity to work together in groups
developing skills such as discussion, active listening, co-operation, presenting findings and building confidence.
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History Course Overview1. The Great War
2. Understanding trench warfare- impact of new technology including tanks and poison gas
1.Causes of this global conflict-naval race, alliance system
3.Investigating the British Home front-changing role of women, rationing, conscientious objectors, boy soldiers.
4.The end of the war and the Treaty of Versailles
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2. The USA The issue of the Slave Trade
The Triangular Trade and Britain's involvement
Slave Auctions
Treatment of slaves-plantation life, punishments and conditions
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The American Civil War –
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and
60s
Causes, key battles and reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws, treatment of black Americans, the KKK. Peaceful and violent protests
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3. An ‘Assassinations’ added value unit on either JFK, Martin
Luther King or Malcolm X
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S3 CfE Geography
Course overview
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Coasts
The power of waves to shape our coastlines and the processes involved in doing so.
Features of erosion and deposition.
Coastal land use, conflicts and solutions.
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Kenya A case study of a fascinating country of contrasts
Exploring the population, culture and the economy
Understanding the climate and physical landscape
Contrasting urban with rural and modern with traditional
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Weather and climate
Measuring and recording the weather and interpreting synoptic charts.
Added Value Unit: Exploring desertification as a climatic issue and ways of managing it.
Understanding Britain’s changeable weather patterns with high and low pressure systems.
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ReligiousMoral
Philosophical Studies
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Human RightsAn introduction to the UNDHRmy rights and my responsibilitiesThe big question: Are some people more
human than others?
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Child SoldiersNot the usual image of warWhere is it happening and what can be done
about it?
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The Rwandan GenocideWhat happened?Why did it happen?Survivor storiesIs forgiveness possible?
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Ultimate QuestionsWho am I?Why am I here?Where am I going?What about suffering?
We will examine these big questions from the perspective of two major world religions and humanism