History
Introduction
“History teaches everything including the future”. - Lamartine
History helps you develop the skills to look beyond the headlines, to ask questions properly, and to express your own opinions. History helps you discover how your world evolved.
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 students undertake programmes of study that includes:
Year 7
- Roman
- Norman Invasion of England
- Crusades
- Medieval Life and Religion
- Thomas Becket
- King John
- Black Death
- Peasants’ Revolt
- Joan of Arc
- Medieval Conflict
Year 8
- Tudor & Stuart Monarchs
- Slavery
- English Civil War and its aftermath
- American Revolution
- French Revolution
- Napoleon & Wellington
- India & the British
- Irish famine & Home Rule.
- Chartism
Year 9
- Suffragettes
- World War 1
- Holocaust
- World War 2
- Cold War and Superpower relations
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 students undertake formal assessments on each of the themes studied at Key Stage 3.
Qualifications
KS4
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Qualification GCSE |
Examining Body |
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Paper 1 – Thematic Study & Historic Environment. (Paper codes: 1HI0/10–12)) Warfare and British society, c1250–present and London and the Second World War, 1939–45. This 1 hour 20 minute exam is a written paper worth 30% or 52 marks 16 for the historic environment, 36 for the thematic study of total grade. |
Edexcel 9-1 –History |
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UNIT 2 – Period Study & British depth study. (Paper codes: 1HI0/20–29) Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 (32 marks) Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91 (32 marks) This 1 hour 50 minute exam is a written paper worth 40 % or 64 marks of total grade. |
Edexcel 9-1 –History |
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UNIT 3- Modern depth study (Paper codes: 1HI0/30–33) Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39 This 1 hour 30 minute exam is a written paper worth 30% or 52 marks of total grade. 1930- |
Edexcel 9-1 –History |
KS5
How the Edexcel A-level History course is assessed
The examined A-level is divided into three examination papers, alongside the separately completed coursework component.
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Component |
Topic |
Time |
Marks |
A-level weighting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Paper 1 |
Germany and West Germany, 1918–89 |
2 hours 15 minutes |
60 |
30% |
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Paper 2 |
The rise and fall of fascism in Italy, c1911–46 |
1 hour 30 minutes |
40 |
20% |
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Paper 3 |
Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914 |
2 hours 15 minutes |
60 |
30% |
|
Coursework |
Historical enquiry |
— |
40 |
20% |
Total examination time: 6 hours
Examined assessment: 80%
Coursework: 20%
Trips include
- Year 7 Warwick castle.
- Year 8 Tower of London
- Year 9 IWM, Churchill War rooms, HMS Belfast.
Staff
| Mr M Young | History - Curriculum Leader, Head of Year 9 - myo@slougheton.com |
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Mr D Kovacs |
History Teacher, Duke of Edinburgh Coordinator |
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Miss L Claydon |
History Teacher, Head of Year 7 |