History
Our teaching staff motivate students to build their skills and intellectual curiosity. Students learn about the past and its legacies and our teaching challenges them to be inspired by and enjoy learning about history, so they are successful in their studies.
Year 7, 8 and 9 students
At Key Stage 3, students alternate between one and two lessons of history per week on a half-termly basis. In history they extend and deepen their chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, so that it provides a well-informed context for wider learning. Students identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time, learning to use historical terms and concepts in increasingly sophisticated ways.
Students cover the following content in history at Key Stage 3:
- the development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509
- the development of Church, state and society in Britain 1509-1745
- ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901
- challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day, including the holocaust
- the study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066
- a local history study.
Year 10 and 11 students
In their study of Edexcel History GCSE Level, are students are taught to:
- Extend their knowledge and understanding of key events, periods, and societies in local, British, and wider world history, and of the wide diversity of human experience.
- Engage in historical enquiry and develop skills as independent learners, and critical and reflective thinkers.
- Develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, critically investigate issues and make valid historical claims.
- Develop an awareness of why people and events have historical significance and how and why they have different interpretations.
- Organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding to reach substantiated conclusions.
