At Merstone School, our humanities curriculum encompasses history and geography. Our intention and vision is to ensure each of our pupils is given the opportunity to gain an appreciation of their own locality and that of the wider world in which we all live.  We hope through this broad curriculum, each pupil will develop an understanding of how the complexity of people’s lives are grown through the process of change from past to present, and how their own lives also are part of this ongoing change.

Through the teaching of humanities, we hope to foster in our pupils not only a tolerance, but a joy, too, of those who have lived before them, those amongst whom they currently live, and those who live in different parts of the world in very different cultures and communities to the ones they know so well here at home.  In this way, we hope that our pupils will eventually leave Merstone empowered with an empathy and independence to stand them in good stead wherever they may find themselves in the world.

Throughout the different pathways in Merstone, we expect the humanities curriculum to enable all pupils to develop at their own pace and level within an environment that feels safe, secure and comfortable.  Lessons will be delivered in a multi-sensory way to help each student achieve their full potential and grow in self-esteem and enjoyment of the subject.