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Spiritual development
- In the study of other countries students gain an awareness of how other religions can affect the social structure and even things like building design within a country.
- Japan Yr 7 – pupils made aware of different religions e.g. Buddhism, Shintoism. Allows discussion about different beliefs.
- Kenya – Year 8 Muslim dress and how tourists can offend when visiting Mombasa. Need to be considerate when dressing in public places in foreign countries.
- GCSE – Population and Migration – the effects of different religious beliefs on birth rates, family planning, world population growth etc.
Moral development
- Pupils have to think about how they treat the environment e.g. encouraging recycling, public transport etc.
- In year 8 we study a topic on National Parks and this allows students to develop an awareness on how ‘they’ as different users, may possibly cause conflict in National Parks.
- In Year 8 we study weather and climate and think about the effects we may be having on Global Warming.
- Most of the GCSE topics cover the effects of disasters on the populations of countries and what we should morally be doing to help them e.g. If we reduce our carbon emissions this helps to save the livelihoods of people in the Maldives and prevent their island from flooding.
- In Year 8 we study shanty towns in Kenya. Should people be allowed to live like this?
- In Year 9 we study ‘Energy’ and pupils get to give their views on whether it is morally right to use nuclear power, or frack for gas.
Social development
- Social, political effects of environment hazards on populations around the world.
- At GCSE (especially) students study a variety of topics including worldwide destinations and the effects of world travel within the tourism topic e.g. the increase in carbon emissions caused by an increase in flight use.
- Students explore concepts such as monsoons/typhoons/volcanoes/earthquakes/tropical storms and the effects that these can have on people within less economically developed countries.
- We study political/social/environmental/economic effects of these disasters on the populations that they affect.
Cultural development
- At GCSE we study Ethnic segregation within cities and the solutions for integration. In Year 8 we study the Maasai tribes and how they live. We also discuss Kibera in Nairobi or Indian squatter settlements and how people live in the slums.
- Pupils may have the chance to build shanty models in groups and reflect on how these people live.
- GCSE Tourism – effects of global tourism on cultures e.g. rainforest tribes/Nepalese
- Japan cultural development – stereotypes & mix of modern/traditional, how the Japanese live differently to us.
- In Year 9 pupils investigate the "Changing Culture" of Manchester and other UK cities, from Lowry times until present. Part of this involves groups investigating how housing, shopping, ethnicity, gay culture etc have changed over the last 100 years. We don’t discuss homosexual relationships here but the fact that being gay is acceptable in a modern world.