SHAPE is a new collective name for social sciences, humanities and the arts.

"SHAPE Workshops has been an eye opening and enjoyable experience for our learners; it has allowed them to link subjects together and express their understanding through creative discussions and expressive tasks. The workshops have created an awareness of arts/social-science-based subjects in our school and encouraged pupils to explore subjects from different perspective.”

“The workshops developed by SHAPE have enabled our students to explore everyday objects through a synoptic lens and to learn how they connect across different cultures and subjects to develop their knowledge and understanding of the world around them. It has been a privilege to be part of SHAPE and to work in new and creative ways to promote the value and importance of SHAPE subjects in the curriculum.”

“The SHAPE project allowed us to trial some really exciting cross curricular teaching resources. The lessons gave the pupils a completely new starting point that worked across all SHAPE subjects and made them look at these subjects in a completely different way. The object-based learning was particularly of interest to us as a school and we plan to implement it across our subjects to link into our new Curriculum for Wales.”

“Pupils made masks and were able to connect skills-based learning in the study of English, such as Romeo and Juliet. They remarked it brought the topic to life. Staff were able to link to careers and show how skills are transferable throughout the world. Other pupils engaged on a trip around the world by train and became excited using IT to visit places of interest using Google maps. A very worthwhile project.”