History

KS3 HISTORY

YEAR 7

POWER & THE PEOPLE: The development of kingship and parliament

The Year 7 curriculum begins with a transition module that introduces students to studying the discipline of History with a focus on key skills such as chronology, evidence and categorisation. We then studying Medieval and Early Modern England with a focus on how power has shifted from Anglo-Saxon and Norman England through the Medieval period to the Wars of the Roses and the Tudors.

YEAR 8

POWER & PERSECUTION: The treatment of people

The Year 8 curriculum allows students to study wider world History. We consider wider world events through the lens of persecution and the treatment of different peoples. We begin by studying the Transatlantic Slave Trade, followed by the abolition movement and then transition into the civil rights movements of the 19^th, 20^th and 21^st centuries including African-American civil rights, women’s rights and the Suffragette movement and LGBT+ rights. In Term 3 we begin to look at life in the early 20^th century and the First World War.

YEAR 9

POWER & WAR: Conflict & Tension

The Year 9 curriculum allows students to study modern history and recent world events. This begins with the Interwar period following their study of the First World War at the end of Year 8, which includes peace-making, political ideologies and systems (including the Russian Revolution, Fascism in Italy and Nazism in Germany) and the causes of the Second World War. This is then followed with a study of the Second World War and in-depth study of the Holocaust, which allows for comparison with the treatment of people module in Year 8. After Easter in Year 9 we begin to study the History GCSE to allow students a trial period to help guide their decision making when they choose their GCSE options and to support the transition from KS3 to KS4.

 

GCSE HISTORY

We study AQA History for GCSE. There are four modules we study in the two years at GCSE.

Module 1A: Period Study

Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship

This study focuses on the development of Germany during a turbulent half century of change. It was a period of democracy and dictatorship – the development and collapse of democracy and the rise and fall of Nazism.

Module 1B: Wider World Depth Study

Conflict and Tension: The Inter-War Years, 1918-1939

This study enables students to understand the complex and diverse interests of different individuals and states including the Great Powers. It focuses on the peace-making after the First World War and the causes of the Second World War and seeks to show how and why conflict occurred.

Module 2A: Thematic Study

Britain: Health and the People, c.1000 to the Present Day

This study will enable students to gain an understanding of how medicine and public health developed in Britain over a long period of time. It considers the causes, scale, nature and consequences of short and long term developments, their impact on British society and how they were related to the key features and characteristics of the period in which they took place.

Module 2B: British Depth Study

Elizabethan England, c.1568 to 1603

This study allows students to study in depth the reign of Elizabeth I. The focus is on key aspects of her reign including economic, religious, political, social and cultural changes in this period and arising contemporary and historical controversies.

The GCSE specification can be found here: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/history/gcse/history-8145/specification-at-a-glance