History

KEY STAGE 3

History fires pupils’ curiosity and imagination, moving and inspiring them with the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past. It helps pupils develop their own identities through an understanding of history at personal, local, national and international levels. It helps them to ask and answer questions of the present by engaging with the past.
Pupils develop a chronological overview that enables them to make connections within and across different periods and societies. As they develop their understanding of the nature of historical study, pupils ask and answer important questions, evaluate evidence, identify and analyse different interpretations of the past, and learn to substantiate any arguments and judgements they make.

KEY STAGE 4

Pupils will study a broad range of topics both in breadth and depth. These include a British Thematic Study with Historic Environment:
Medicine in Britain c1250-present with The British Sector of the Western Front, a Period Study and British Depth Study: Superpower
relations and the Cold War & Anglo-Saxon and Norman England and a Modern Depth Study: Weimar and NAZI Germany.
The assessments are designed for students of all abilities with a mixture of short- and long-answer questions. Questions will focus on a variety of historical areas, such as what happened, why things happened, the impact of key events, how far you agree with a view. Students also analyse historical sources and come up with ideas for tackling an historical investigation.

Year

Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Term 4

Term 5

Term 6

7

Intro to History & Migration to Britain (Thematic)

Norman Conquest & Castles

 

Islamic Golden Age & Crusades

 

Medieval life

Tudors

Civil War

8

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Empire (case study on India & Kingdom of Benin)

Agricultural & Industrial Revolution

Age of Revolutions (Qing dynasty, American Revolution & French Revolution)

PROJECT (picks from Victorian Science, Victorian Crime and punishment or Age of Explorers)

Suffragettes

9

WW1

Democracy and Dictators

 

WW2

 

Holocaust

 

GCSE: Unit 1 Medicine Through Time

 

GCSE: Unit 1 Medicine Through Time

 

10

GCSE: Unit 1 Medicine Through Time

GCSE: Unit 1 Medicine Through Time

GCSE: Unit 2 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

GCSE: Unit 2 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

GCSE: Unit 2 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

GCSE: Unit 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany

11

GCSE: Unit 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany

GCSE: Unit 3 Weimar and Nazi Germany

GCSE: Unit 4 Superpower Relations and the Cold War

GCSE: Unit 4 Superpower Relations and the Cold War

GCSE: Unit 4 Superpower Relations and the Cold War