HISTORY

History offers an opportunity to refresh and re-invigorate thinking and to inspire and engage learners of the twenty-first century.  Part of the department's mission to inspire and motivate students in their investigation of the past. It aims to help students develop their own identities, and to respect each other through study of history at personal, local, national and international levels.

The History Department aims to make the study of history relevant and engaging to its students to foster independent learning in order to encourage confident and thoughtful young people to take an interest in the world around them.

Curriculum

 AIMS
  • successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
  • confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives
  • responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.

CURRICULUM MODEL

At KS3 the study of history is with all pupils closely following a chronological flow of history from 1066:
  • Year 7: What is history; Foundations of England; HenryIi and Church vs State; Castles, Towns, Villages and Movements for Social Change
  • Year 8: Medieval Renaissance; Tudor and Stuart England; Significant Causes of the Civil War; Revolutions; Slavery by 1900.
  • Year 9: Late Victorian England; Women and the Suffrage Movement by 1918; Causes of World War II; Depth Study: London, Dresden, Hiroshima

At GCSE pupils follow EDEXECEL Programme, studying the options below. Assessment is gained through three papers taken at the end of the two year study (100%) set by the exam board:
  • Paper 1: Historic Environment: Crime and punishment in Britain c1000 to present with Whitechapel, c1870–1900: crime and policing. (30%)
  • Paper 2: Part A: British Depth Study: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-1088. (20%)
  • Paper 2: Part B: Period Study: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–1991 (20%
  • Paper 3: Modern Depth Study: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 (30%)

At AS/A2 Level (from Sept 2015) EDEXCEL British and European courses 9H10
  • Unit 1: Britain, 1625-1701: Conflict, Revolution and Settlement
  • Unit 2: Russia in Revolution, 1894-1924
  • Unit 3: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918
  • Unit 4: Coursework: To Be Confirmed

We invite students to participate and submit entries to the Vellacote Cambridge History Essay Prize. In 2017 a Y12 student was awarded 'highly commended'. There is also the award of an ‘Annual History Prize’. It is presented to a student or students for outstanding achievement.

Extension History
  • Additionally students are given opportunity and training for the Oxbridge HAT exams (History Aptitude Test)
  • Lower School Extension is available through the Thursday Lunchtime club and the annual History Day activities in July.
  • Winter Truce Football Match.
  • Bist Hill Industrial Revolution Trip.
  • Berlin Summer Tour
  • Y10 Crime and Punishment Enrichment

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Mr. G. Leventhall - Head of Department
Mr.A.Cheetham
Mr.J.Pitt
Mr.L.Stott