“History teaches everything including the future”.
                                                                     Lamartine

History helps you discover how your world evolved.
History helps you develop the skills to look beyond the headlines, to ask questions properly, and to express your own opinions.
History trains your mind and teaches you how to think and process information.
History students are rounded individuals who develop an understanding of both past and present.
History helps you make sense of most other subjects.
History provides you with the skills employers are looking for.

History at Key Stage 3
History is taught using the themes of Power, Culture and Beliefs and Conflict. Within those themes pupils undertake programmes of study:

  • Introduction to HistoryPic1

  • Medieval Monarchs

  • Medieval Warfare

  • Medieval Life and Religion

  • Tudors and Stuart MonarchsPic2

  • The Spanish Armada (Depth Study)

  • The Civil War and its Aftermath

  • The United Kingdom

  • The Chartists and Suffragettes
    Pic3
  • Industrial Revolution

  • World War 1

  • The Holocaust (Depth Study)

  • World War 2

 

 

Various teaching styles are used; active learning, role-play writing frames, discussion, group and individual work. Source analysis skills are developed to a very high level and pupils undertake formal assessments on each of the themes studied at Key Stage 3. In 2012 Year 8 and 9 pupils will be given the opportunity to visit the Battlefields of Belgium.

 

HISTORY GCSE
Examination Board – AQA
Specification B – Modern World History


UNIT 1 – International Relations: Conflict and Peace in the 20th Century.Pic4

  • The origins of the Cold War
  • Crises of the Cold War 1955-1970
  • The Failure of Détente and the collapse of communism, 1970-1991

The exam is a written paper worth 37.5% of total grade.

 

UNIT 2 –  20TH Century Depth Studies.Pic5

  • The Roaring 20s: USA, 1919-1929
  • Hitler’s Germany, 1929-1939
  • The USA and Vietnam: Failure Abroad and at Home, 1964-1975

The exam is a written paper worth 37.5% of total grade.

 

UNIT 3- Historical EnquiryPic6

  • The Changing Role and Status of Women in Britain since 1900

Controlled assessment worth 25% of total grade.

Useful links
www.schoolhistory.co.uk
www.johndclare.net
www.spartacus.net

 

The History Department
Mr C Jones (Head of Department)
Mr A Dickinson (Assistant Head of Year 7)