Welcome to Social Subjects

• History• Geography• Religious, moral and philosophical

studies (RMPS)

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

Working Individually and with others

cooperatively

Resources

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

3. An ‘Assassinations’ added value unit on either JFK, Martin

Luther King or Malcolm X

S3 CfE Geography

Course overview

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.

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

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.

ReligiousMoral

Philosophical Studies

Human RightsAn introduction to the UNDHRmy rights and my responsibilitiesThe big question: Are some people more

human than others?

Child SoldiersNot the usual image of warWhere is it happening and what can be done

about it?

The Rwandan GenocideWhat happened?Why did it happen?Survivor storiesIs forgiveness possible?

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