ABSTRACT
Manor Park School is an 11–18 comprehensive school of 1,000 pupils in the east of Newcastle. It is a split-site school: the Upper School in a 1960 building and the Lower School in a 1904 building a mile and a half away. Like many comprehensive schools it was founded on the assumption that the best curriculum organisation and content was to be found in the former grammar schools. When planning a major curriculum change all factors have to be taken into account, not least the buildings. The reallocation of the space in this area had to be in accordance with the needs of the Humanities teachers, but, on the other hand, their needs could not exceed the limitations of the buildings. The composition of the two teams in each year-group mirrors as far as possible the constituent subject disciplines in Humanities: that is an English specialist, Historian, Geographer, and Religious Education specialist.
