History
Year 7
History is taught for three hours a fortnight from the start of the year.
Students will have the opportunity to learn core skills vital to this discipline such as chronological organisation, evidence analysis and evaluation of causation. Students in Year 7 will assess the organisation of society and the control exerted by monarchs both in the British Isles and abroad during the medieval period. Topics include the Norman conquest, King John and the Crusades. Selecting this time-period allows students to review how society is structured with personal rule increasingly supplemented by sophisticated bureaucracies.
Year 7 Curriculum Overview - History
Year 8
In Year 8 students will build on the skills of inference, analysis and evaluation learned in their first year of secondary education to look at the changing relationship between England and the rest of the world. They will focus on the 16th to the 19th centuries, focusing on topics such as the English Civil Wars, the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.
Year 8 Curriculum Overview - History
Year 9
In Year 9 students will build on the skills of inference, analysis and evaluation learned across the first two years of secondary History. Throughout the course we will make links to modern events such as the First World War, the Second World War, the Holocaust and the Post War World setting them in context to enable students to better understand some of the reasons behind modern international relations and conflicts.
Year 9 Curriculum Overview - History
Year 10 GCSE
Key Stage 4 History will build upon the fundamental historical concepts taught at KS3 such as change and continuity, significance , interpretations and source analysis. Our chosen exam board is Edexcel. The course is split into three papers which allows a wide breadth of historical knowledge to be obtained. Paper 1 is Medicine in Britain c1250-present and also includes a study of the Western Front in WW1. Paper 2 is made up of 2 sections: Early Elizabethan England 1558-88, and Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-91. Paper 3 is a study of Weimar and Nazi Germany. Through these courses students gain a wide range of knowledge in British, European and World History.
Year 10 Curriculum Overview - History
Year 11 GCSE
In Year 11, students will resume their GCSE studies - beginning by continuing their study of Weimar and Nazi Germany . Students will then move on to acquiring further skills to consolidate their knowledge of our GCSE topics in order to prepare them for our external examinations.
