Humanities at Essa Academy

Keep up-to-date with everything happening in the Humanities department @EssaAcademy

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Our humanities trainee has completed his first Wellbeing Wednesday! #wellbeingwednesday 👏

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We are launching a Humanities 'Star of the Week'. Star students from each week will be put into a prize draw that will be revealed at the end of term!🌟

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Exciting news! The Humanities department are launching debate club this week. 🌎📢#allwillsucceed

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Some examples of the great work year 10 did at Saturday School this morning ⭐️

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Our Humanities Career Profiles board is looking great in our department.

We can’t wait for students to be back next week to see it 💜 #CareersWeek @CareersWeek

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And our RS Teachers 💜

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As part of Careers week, we asked our Humanities Teachers to complete Career profiles - showcasing their academic journey into teaching and the different career routes available to students who study humanities subjects.

It’s great to be able to see everyone’s journey 🌏💜

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Our History Teachers 💜

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Mr Pledgers Geography class have been writing newspaper articles about extreme weather and climate change this week.

It really is so important to educate our students about the environment and climate change 🌎💜

https://t.co/HJ2bmZ8Ovy

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Year 10 students in Mr Ashton and Mr Daniel’s History classes have produced some brilliant responses to feedback given to them for their assessments this week.

Great to see students improving their exam technique from home 📚🥇⭐️

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Mr Ashton’s Year 7 History class making great use of the Microsoft Teams chat box to describe the differences between Medieval English towns and Medieval Chinese towns

Great to see students adapting well to virtual forms of teaching 📚🥇

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Miss Gallagher’s Year 10 class producing some more great work this week as they learn about Prophet Adam (as)

Great work as usual 📚🥇

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Mr Pledger's Y10 Geographers have been demonstrating fantastic effort in their Seneca online learning courses! Revising the topic 'Changing Economic World topic', Mr Pledger can see their scores live and reteach sticking points based on any misconceptions. Look at all that green!

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This week, Year 8 Geographers are taking a virtual field trip to the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as part of Google’s Beyond the Map programme.

The programme helps students to visualise life in the favelas, and gives people who live there a greater sense of identity 🌎🇧🇷

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The hard work continues in Miss Gallagher’s GCSE RS class with students producing great work on Islam Beliefs and Teachings, as well as responding effectively to teacher feedback. Well done guys! 📚🥇

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Brilliant effort as always ⭐️📚

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Some amazing work going on in History this week as Year 11 students virtually explore Microbiology through the work of Koch and Ehrlich.

Keep up the great work everyone! 📚

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Miss Taylor and Miss Caldwell’s Y10 Young Leader class have been busy making Christmas cards for the different departments at school! What a lovely way to spread festive cheer! @EssaAcademy 🎄🎄🎄

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Lots of #StaffWellbeing flying round the building at the minute with #SecretSanta 🎅🏽@EssaHumanities @EssaLanguages