--- title: "Humanities" url: "https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum/humanities" school: "Hope High School" --- [![Hope High School](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/logo/logo_250b.png)![](https://files.schudio.com/hope-high-school/images/logo/logo_250b.png)](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/) - [ Our Community](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/our-community) - [ Key Information](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/key-information) - [ Curriculum](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/curriculum) - [ Term Dates \| School Day](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/termdates) - [ Personal Development ](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/personal-development) - [ Contact Us](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/contact) # Humanities ![](https://hopehighschool.co.uk/images/pages/0e3f2ecc7c4b5c114275598737fad421.png) **"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."** **Mahatma Gandhi** At Hope High School, we will be covering History, Geography, and RE as part of our Humanities programme at KS3&4. Throughout KS3 within Geography pupils will develop knowledge, understand processes and become competent in Geographical Skills, following a fun and structured curriculum plan throughout the years. The focus in History for pupils will develop their chronological knowledge understanding British, Local and World knowledge, pupils will have the opportunity to explore. At KS3&4 students will work towards Entry Level Humanities pathway certificates in History. Throughout the History certificate pupils will cover Medieval, Modern Britain, Industrialisation and Germany 1925-1955 extending and deepening their knowledge and understanding. GCSE History is being offered at Hope High School, the pupils will cover: Paper 1 Section A Period Studies, AB Germany 1890-1945 Democracy and Dictatorship and Section B Wider World Depth studies, BB Conflict and Tension The Inter Years 1918-1939. Paper 2 Section A Shaping the Nation, AB Britain Power and the people C1170 to present day, Section B: British depth studies including Historic environment and BA Norman England C1066-C1100. Parents and carers have the right to withdraw their child from Religious Education lessons as set out in the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998. Please contact Hope High School for further information. We want our pupils to have a developed awareness of the world around them and an understanding of the different communities and cultures that exist in Britain today, as well as knowledge about Britain’s role in the world historically. 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