History

Overview

Our history department is staffed by passionate teachers with excellent subject knowledge. We deliver a varied and diverse curriculum across all key stages, focusing on developing the historical skills essential for success. History is a popular choice at both GCSE and A Level.

Our intent is to develop excellent historians by equipping students with the knowledge and skills to understand how past events shape the world today.

We aim for students to analyse information objectively, challenge assumptions, and reflect on their place in the world. They learn to recognise different historical perspectives and understand how interpretations of the past are continually reconsidered and re-evaluated.

Year 7

Topic 1 – Roman Britain
Topic 2 – Medieval Kingship
Topic 3 – Life in Medieval Britain
Topic 4 – Medieval Islamic Civilisations
Topic 5 – Renaissance, Exploration and the Aztec Empire
Topic 6 – Historical interpretations of Tudor England

Year 8

Topic 1– Stuart England and the English Civil War
Topic 2 – The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Topic 3 – Caribbean from abolition to Windrush
Topic 4 – Industrial Revolution
Topic 5 – Suffrage

Year 9

Topic One – Historical Interpretations of the First World War
Topic Two – 1920s and 1930s America – Boom and Bust
Topic Three – Empire and Partition – A Comparison of Ireland and India
Topic Four – Soviet Experiment (Russia/USSR from 1917-1941)
Topic Five – Antisemitism in the 20th Century
Topic Six – The turning points of the Second World War

Year 10

Topic One: Superpower Relations (Cold War)
Topic Two: Weimar and Nazi Germany

For students with three lessons a week in Year 10, they will start Medicine Through Time in the summer term

Year 11

Topic One: Medicine Through Time
Topic Two: Early Elizabethan England
Revision and exam preparation

Exam board

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Specification

Years 12 & 13

We offer this subject at Key Stage 5. Click here to find out more.