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
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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 |
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