Roman Britain

• Roman Empire (background)
• Invasion
• Everyday life
• Culture & influences from Ancient Greece

Dark Ages

• Anglo-Saxon migration
• the unifying of England's kingdoms

Middle Ages

• Norman invasion
• castles
• feudalism
• church
• Crusades
• Wars of the Roses
• everyday life
• Black Death

Tudors & Stuarts

• The Reformation
• Religious conflict under the Tudors
• Social history under the Stuarts

Beliefs and ideas through time

• Beliefs throughout time
• Religion in classical civilisations
• Paganism
• Establishment of world religions
• The Enlightenment
• Darwin

Knowledge Organisers:

Home learning is allocated on a weekly basis by each department. It may be an isolated piece of work, a project, research or an alternative task which challenges the students to solidify their knowledge and / or extend it.

In the Summer Term, each student will sit a formal, internal exam which will consist of all elements taught throughout the course.  Appropriate preparation in the form of revision should be taken seriously with sufficient planning and organisation to ensure each student fulfils their potential

The Mughal Empire

• The British Raj
• Akbar
• Aurangzeb
• East India Company
• Robery Clive
• Bahadur Shah
• The Indian Rebellion

The British Empire

• Start of the empire
• Slavery (world history of, Britain's role)
• US revolution
• Expansion of empire
• Trade and the empire
• Scramble for Africa

Industrial Revolution

• Agricultural revolution
• Industrial revolution (inventions, factories, mining, growth of towns, transport)

Democracy in Britain

• Monarchy
• Magna Carta
• Simon de Montfort and Parliament
• Civil War 1642-9
• Inter-regnum
• French Revolution impact on UK
• Protest/ Chartists/Reform Act/ Suffragettes

London in World War Two

• Evacuation
• Protective measures
• the Blitz
• Women's role
• Internment of foreigners in UK
• rationing
• Home Guard
• entertainment/morale

Knowledge Organisers:

KS3 Assessment:

Home learning is allocated on a weekly basis by each department. It may be an isolated piece of work, a project, research or an alternative task which challenges the students to solidify their knowledge and / or extend it.

In the Summer Term, each student will sit a formal, internal exam which will consist of all elements taught throughout the course.  Appropriate preparation in the form of revision should be taken seriously with sufficient planning and organisation to ensure each student fulfils their potential

Turning points in the 20th century

• World War One (causes and consequences)
• The Russian Revolution/Communism and impact on the west
• Wall St Crash
• Causes of WW2
• Impact of WW2/Cold War overview
• the Arab-Israeli conflict and link to the 9/11

The Impact of Dictators, Totalitarianism and Genocide on society 

• Communism in the USSR/E Europe under Lenin and Stalin
• the Holocaust
• Mao's China
• Pol Pot and Cambodia
• Post-Cold War Balkans
• Rwandan Genocide

Post-War Britain

• Britain in 1945/ the impact of WW2
• Atlee's government
• Immigration/Windrush
• the NHS

Britain in the 50s and 60s

• 1950s under Macmillan
• Influences on society from the USA (Rock and Roll /teenager culture/consumerism/Civil Rights/race relations)
• Swinging 60s and Liberal laws/changes

Britain in the 70s/80s/90s

• The troubled 70s (unions, strikes)
• Thatcher's Britain (Miner's strike, the economy, Falklands)
• Ireland (The troubles, terrorism and The Good Friday Agreement)
• Overview of New Labour and Austerity Britain in the 2010s

KS4 Assessment:

Home learning is allocated on a weekly basis by each department. It may be an isolated piece of work, a project, research or an alternative task which challenges the students to solidify their knowledge and / or extend it.

In the Summer Term, each student will sit a formal, internal exam which will consist of all elements taught throughout the course.  Appropriate preparation in the form of revision should be taken seriously with sufficient planning and organisation to ensure each student fulfils their potential

Students study the Edexcel/Pearson syllabus, which can be viewed here:

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/history-2016.html

The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:

• develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in local, British, and wider world history; and of the wide diversity of human experience
• engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers
• develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context
• develop an awareness of why people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them
• organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.

The 4 topics studied are (papers 2 and 3 in Year 10, paper 1 in Year 11):

KS4 Assessment:

All students who follow this course will be given home learning weekly.  Wider reading is always useful either from the websites offered, the text book or as directed by their classroom teacher.

In the Summer Term, each student will sit a formal, internal exam which will consist of all elements taught throughout the course.  Appropriate preparation in the form of revision should be taken seriously with sufficient planning and organisation to ensure each student fulfils their potential

Students study the Edexcel/Pearson syllabus, which can be viewed here:

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/history-2016.html

The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:

• develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in local, British, and wider world history; and of the wide diversity of human experience
• engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers
• develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context
• develop an awareness of why people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them
• organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.

The 4 topics studied are (papers 2 and 3 in Year 10, paper 1 in Year 11):

KS4 Assessment:

All students who follow this course will be given home learning weekly.  Wider reading is always useful either from the websites offered, the text book or as directed by their classroom teacher.

In the Summer Term, each student will sit a formal, internal exam which will consist of all elements taught throughout the course.  Appropriate preparation in the form of revision should be taken seriously with sufficient planning and organisation to ensure each student fulfils their potential.

Examination Board :

OCR 

Course Specification:

OCR GCSE History A(9-1) - J410

Qualification obtained:

GCSE History

http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse-history-a-explaining-the-modern-world-j410-from-2016/

https://learning.parliament.uk/resources/?age-range-suitability=age-11-to-14&theme=history#main

https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home

Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39, by John Wright, Steve Waugh

Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91, by John Wright, Steve Waugh

Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88, by Barbara Mervyn

Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel: Medicine Through Time, c1250–Present, by Ian Dawson

Trips are currently on hold due to COVID restrictions. We have taken students to the Battlefields, Berlin and on trips in and around London to further supplement their studies.

Anne Frank House Virtual Tour

Explore the annex where Anne Frank hid for more than two years during World War II.

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/secret-annex/

Buckingham Palace Virtual Tour

Take a look round Buckingham Palace.

https://www.royal.uk/virtual-tours-buckingham-palace

Natural History Museum

Go on a Fossil Hunting Adventure.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/360-fossil-hunting-adventure.html

British Museum

Explore every artefact on display at the British Museum.

https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Explore every exhibit the museum has to offer.

https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH/z_tour-022.html

History Careers information