Why study History?

History enables students to:

• develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in local, British, and wider world history; and of the wide diversity of human experience,
• engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers,
• develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context,
• develop an awareness of why people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them,
• organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.

 

Year 7

• What is History?
• Water and health through time.
• Understanding the Middle Ages.
• London through time.

 

year 8

• Bank note project.
• Understanding the changing world 1450-1750.
• Sugar and slavery.
• Understanding industry and empire.
• Migrants to Britain in time.

 

year 9

• 'History in the countryside' oral history project.
• Understanding the modern world (including Haig depth study).
• Russia in Revolution 1914-24.
• The USA 1917-29.
• Changes in Medicine c1845-c1945.

 

GCSE  history

(AQA EXAM BOARD)

We study GCSE History 8145 (AQA).

Our chosen units are:

• Britain: Migration, empires and the People c.790 – the present day.
• Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972.
• Elizabeth I c.1568 – 1603.
• Germany: 1890 – 1945 Democracy and Dictatorship.

how will this be assessed?

Students are examined by two written exams.

 

opportunities for self-study

Students can also self-study: 

 

GCSE Classical Civilisation J199 

(OCR EXAM BOARD)

Students choose their own route to the GCSE.

Thematic study:

• Myth and Religion or Women in the Ancient World.

Combined with one of the following literature units:

• The Homeric World.
• Roman City Life.
• War and Warfare.

Students are examined by two written exams.

 

GCSE Citizenship Studies 8100

(AQA EXAM BOARD)

• Citizenship skills, processes and methods
• Life in modern Britain
• Rights and responsibilities
• Politics and participation
• Active citizenship

Students are examined by two written exams.