History
Subject intent
The teaching of History is essential for students in understanding their place in the world, studying events in the past to help students understand why the world is as it is today.
History equips them with the knowledge and skills they need to understand the world around them. The History curriculum will give students a sense of how history has shaped their lives and stimulate their curiosity. Our history curriculum reflects the diversity in the world around us teaching students about other times and places, cultures and beliefs as well as their own so that they can develop a sense of belonging in an ever-changing world. History should enable students to realise that the past is gone and history is constructed and contested. Through an exploration of historical scholarship, it will teach students how to make sense of conflicting information about the past and use these skills to make sense of the present. Through this students will become critical citizens able to interpret evidence to make decisions on how they live their lives.
Link to KS4 specification
Curriculum plan
History Key Stage 3
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| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 | ||||
| Year 7 | Why did William win the Battle of Hastings? | What was it like to live in the Middle Ages? | Was life better under the King or the Caliph?
| Why was the reformation important?
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| Year 8 | What factors have caused people to come to Britain? What have attitudes towards migrants been in Britain? | What was the impact of the transatlantic slave trade at the time? | We need to talk about the Empire. | How and why has democracy changed 1819 – 1928?
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| Year 9 | Which Historian do you most disagree with about the causes of the First World War? | Who do we remember in World War One? | What was it like to live in Nazi Germany ? | How and why was the Holocaust possible? | 1960s a decade of revolution?
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History GCSE Edexcel
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| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 | |
| Year 10 | Crime and Punishment – Medieval and Early Modern period | Crime and Punishment – Industrial and Modern period | Crime and Punishment – Whitechapel | Elizabethan England | Elizabethan England | USA |
| Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 | |
| Year 11 | USA | USA / Superpowers | Superpowers | Revision | Revision | |
