KSS Humanities and Citizenship

Learning for sustainability (LfS) is an approach to life and learning which enables learners, educators, schools and their wider communities to build a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society. An effective whole school and community approach to LfS weaves together global citizenship, sustainable development education and outdoor learning to create coherent, rewarding and transformative learning experiences. (Education Scotland)

Some pupils from each S1 class were given the opportunity to visit the People’s Palace, Winter Gardens, tour through the Merchant city and finally visit G.o.M.A. Their learning, responses, efforts and behaviour was exemplary!

“There was a painting of John Glassford and his family but there was two hidden people. One of the people was his previous wife who was painted over with his new wife. Also his slave was covered because he didn’t want people seeing him. He was a tobacco lord. We saw the chains the slaves had to wear and how heavy they were. We saw a collar that slaves had to wear and it had the owners name on it.”

“We held replicas of slave trade items, for example, shackles, collars and chains. We went to the Winter Gardens to find crops relevant to the slave trade. We were put into groups of four to find certain crop trees my group was supposed to find banana trees and we were to draw it and written down facts about it.”

“We held replicas of slave trade items, for example, shackles, collars and chains. We went to the Winter Gardens to find crops relevant to the slave trade. We were put into groups of four to find certain crop trees my group was supposed to find banana trees and we were to draw it and written down facts about it.”

“We made badges about things we wanted to stop or what we were against. We drew them then coloured them in. we made these in the Gallery of Modern Art.”

Working hard on their “Badge for a Cause”!

History

Nat 5 – every 2nd week beginning 07/02/18

Higher – every Wednesday

Modern Studies

Nat 5 – every Wednesday

Higher – every Thursday

Geography

Nat 5/Higher – see teacher

RMPS

Higher – every Friday

“In February of this year my Higher modern studies class was visited by a local Labour councillor. His name was Paul Carey and so on that day I went down to the school office and brought him to my modern studies class. When we had arrived he began to tell us a bit abo him and about his work. Once he had finished fellow class members and I asked him many questions such as “what is the hardest part of your job”, “what do you enjoy the most about your job” and “what do you think of the Labour Party”. All of his answers were very interesting and useful for me and my class as he was giving us first-hand information that was very memorable. His information also gave us a better understanding of what life is like for a councillor, the work that he does and how truly difficult the job truly is just to help improve the local area and community. Thanks to his visit me and my class have learned a lot about our local councillors and when the time comes for us to vote we will have a better understanding of what to do and how voting for a councillor can help out our community.” Ross Travers, S5

“It was interesting to know how hard his job was. He wanted to change stuff, housing etc, by taking down high-rise flats, but this was out-with his control. It’s better to learn from people themselves rather than a textbook because he has more experience of every day things and he made us understand what work a councillor does. He was very nice, it was good that he answered everyone’s question as best as he could and we now know what to do or who to go to if we have a problem with something in our local area.” Aliza Ehsan, S4

The Impact of the Great War falls under our Scottish studies and allows pupils to investigate what life was like for those in Scotland during World War One. Pupils must learning about the political, social and economic impact caused by the war and to aid with this, we visited several different workshops organised by WW100. As part of these workshops we handled artefacts, a great way to learn from history, we used sources and discussed the different experiences of men, women and children.

David said “I really enjoyed the Mitchell library experience especially learning about how people lived, worked and went through on a daily basis it was a truly great and interesting experience.

My favourite part of the trip was learning how women had to do they part in the war by chopping wood and getting an experience on cutting a log of wood. I also enjoyed seeing all the medals the British soldiers and Germans received after the war epically the ones for overall Bravery.”

An informative day with lots of hands-on experience!