HISTORY

Helena Wilson, Head of History

From a department of two to now five teaching staff, the history department has thrived. Ms. Wilson, Mrs. Haas, Mr. Tomasik, Mrs., Dhesi and Mr. Kennedy are the dream team. Our exciting corridor is decorated to encourage the students to love coming to their History lesson. The History section in the senior school library is bulging with new books; I encourage you to go and check these out. The curriculum is ever changing and evolving as we love investigating and developing new units. This year Grade 6 have looked into the Silk Roads and the links to the Islamic Golden Age. The development of empires and globalisation was examined by Grade 7. The Grade 8 students focusing on the wars of the 20th century and women’s suffrage. The MYP classes Grade 9 and 10 have prepared for their eAssessment and hope to beat the record score of 6.4 by the class of 2022.

In History week, Ms. Wilson and the History Society focused on Hidden Histories and shared this in their assemblies and published a magazine on this. The annual fashion show was a success with some excellent costumes. There was an excellent debate between Grade 11 and 12 historians who thrashed it out in a debate. As always in December we had out History Seasonal jumpers on display with a new addition of the His-Tree!

Psychology Caroline Haas, Head of Psychology

This year in Psychology we have had some amazing presentations from students including Teonna about the Intellectual impact of the family on the individual, Saleh on autism and Alexis testing out our psychology society members as eye witnesses using their memory for facial recognition.

We were joined by Heloisa Campos, a psychologist working in the clinical setting for 10 years, specialising in diagnose assessment, and a variety of mental health disorders such as anxiety depression, trauma, eating disorders. We also welcomed Gregory Fantham from Heriot Watt University. He delivered a fantastic societies presentation on the psychology of magic.

The Psychology society have also put together and published the third edition of our magazine ‘Insight.’

I am lucky that I have had a hugely dedicated team over the last year who continue to initiate ideas and lead the way for others to research their passions in psychology. The full team are Alexis Schwarz as Lead Chair, Isabel Haas, Saleh Aloimar and Hana (Yujin) Seu as Vice Chairs. A huge thank you from Mrs Haas.