History
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.