Humanities - Templeton School

The Humanities Area of Learning and Experience allows the children at Templeton School to spark their imagination, increase their knowledge and investigate human and natural experiences.

We provide our learners with cross-curricular skills and integral values that underpin the Four Purposes of the curriculum within their daily learning.

Humanities is central to learners at Templeton School becoming ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world. The development of the pupils’ progress within Humanities will provide them with experiences in and outside of the classroom to enable them to become ambitious capable learner just like Capable Clara and Ambitious Andy, ready to learn throughout their lives.

With careful attention of the Humanities topics, our goal is to give our students a variety of experiences that will foster their independence, resilience, and growth in self-awareness. This will support the development of healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.

Cynefin

Cynefin is a major aspect of the New Curriculum which means ‘belonging’. At Templeton School we explore, investigate and examine the human experiences on their communities throughout Wales comparing to the wider world.

Additionally, this allows the pupils to comprehend how Wales’s inhabitants, communities, history, culture, industry and natural landscape link beyond Wales. This gives the pupils the ability to discover their heritage and develop a sense of place and cynefin.

Religious Values and Ethics (RVE)

RVE is a large strand to our Humanities curriculum at Templeton School. The pupils reflect upon the impacts of their actions and those of others, human rights, values, ethics, philosophies, religious and non-religious views.

Templeton School is at the heart of the community where we believe we should be giving our pupils the opportunity to engage in the various religious values and ethics that we are immersed in today. Our religious values and ethics is taught throughout each term creating clear links to our termly topics and celebrations.

Enterprise – Bumbles of Hollywood

At Templeton we have strong links with 2B Enterprising ‘Bumbles of Hollywood’ and Bluestone to create opportunities and develop entrepreneurial skills of our pupils. The aim is to inspire the next generation of ambitious, healthy, enterprising and informed citizens.

This link raises the pupils’ aspirations whilst introducing them to valuable life experiences and key skills. The pupils have a large involvement with the Christmas Fayre by designing and creating a product to raise money for our classes which is also repeated in the summer term to raise funds for our outdoor area and help preserve the nature in our gardens.

Our Key Stage 2 classes have the opportunity to attend ‘Enterprise Club’ during our Extra-Curricular activity club each week where they follow the same process and attend our local market to help raise money for the school. The children involved feel a sense of ownership on their products as well as seeing the benefits that their efforts and entrepreneurial skills have on our school.

What Matters in Humanities

Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future.
Events and human experiences are complex, and are perceived, interpreted and represented in different ways.
Our natural world is diverse and dynamic, influenced by processes and human actions.
Human societies are complex and diverse, and shaped by human actions and beliefs.
Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action.