“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
Michael Crichton
Year 7
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Year 8
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Year 9
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Useful Website Links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zk26n39
https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-3/subjects/history
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks3-history/zhbdpg8
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History
Topics Covered
Thematic Study – Medicine through Time, c.1250-present (Y10)
British Depth Study – Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588 (Y10)
Period Study – Superpower Relations, 1941-1991 (Y11)
Modern Depth Study – USA: Conflict at home and abroad, 1954-1975 (Y11)
Assessment Objectives
AO1: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features and characteristics of the periods studied.
AO2: Explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second order historical concepts (change, continuity, causation, consequence, significance, similarity and difference).
AO3: Analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements, in the context of historical events studied.
AO4: Analyse, evaluate and make substantiated judgements about interpretations (including how and why interpretations may differ) in the context of historical events studied.
Paper 1
Paper 2
Paper 3
Useful Website Links
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zk26n39
https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-3/subjects/history
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks3-history/zhbdpg8
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GCSE History Overview (1).pdf
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Paper 1 Medicine Knowledge Checklist.pdf
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Paper 1 Historic Environment Knowledge Checklist (1).pdf
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Paper 2 Elizabeth Knowledge Checklist (1).pdf
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Paper 2 Cold War Knowledge Checklist.pdf
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Paper 3 Vietnam Knowledge Checklist (1).pdf
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Paper 3 Civil Rights Knowledge Checklist (2).pdf
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