HISTORY

“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

History is a very popular subject at both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Students are encouraged to develop a high standard of knowledge and skills. The curriculum enables students to become aware of their heritage and to develop an understanding of how events in the past have shaped the present so that they can become active and informed citizens of the future.

Key Stage 3 Curriculum

Year 7

Topics covered

The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest
The role of the Church in medieval England
Medieval Baghdad and its connection to the wider world
The Black Death and its consequences
The power of medieval monarchs and the beginning of democracy
The Reformation
Elizabethan England

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Year 8

Topics Covered

The English Civil War and the Republic
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The British Empire
The Industrial Revolution
Migration

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Year 9

Topics Covered

The First World War
Women’s’ campaign for the right to vote
The Second World War
The Holocaust

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Useful Website Links

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zk26n39

https://app.senecalearning.com/classroom/course/f3012969-6fda-4cb0-8de5-8ff738472ea1/section/5c2270b8-b8b9-4bad-a9fc-9894dcb513e7/session

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-3/subjects/history

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks3-history/zhbdpg8

Key Stage 4 Curriculum

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

30% of overall mark
1 hour and 15 minutes
Section A – Historic Environment - 2 questions – one K&U and one two-part source question (10%)
Section B – Thematic study – 3 questions – all K&U, two compulsory and one choice (20%)

Paper 2

40% of overall mark
1 hour 45 minutes
Split into two separate papers
Section P – Period Study – 3 questions – all K&U, two compulsory and one choice (20%)
Section B – British Depth Study – one three-part question, all K&U (20%)

Paper 3