Park High School

Welcome to the History Department

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"Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana

Head of Department:

Mr Kenward

e-mail: mkenward2.310@parkhighstanmore.org.uk

Members of the Department:

Mr Kenward

Ms Salkeld

Miss Campbell

Mr Frankcom

Miss Sakkaf

Mr Stelmaszczyk

Key Stage 3

The main aims of history at Key Stage 3 are to:

Inspire and interest young people, allowing them to enjoy history for its own sake, for its importance and for its relevance to their lives
Be inclusive and representative of students’ individual identities
Provide the knowledge (and ability to apply that knowledge) required for further study of history and which is expected to be known by adult society

Our curriculum at Key Stage 3 is structured and delivered based on recent research into cognitive science - how children learn and how memory works. This means, a knowledge-rich curriculum with regular opportunities to recap and revisit content, using knowledge retrieval practice to ensure that information is consigned to long-term memory.

There is a broadly chronological structure to the curriculum, focussed mainly on British history and with some studies of wider world history. Most topics are studied as periods in history and a few are more thematic, focussing on a particular theme over a long period of time.

The key themes that are integrated into the curriculum are cultural, social, economic, political and military history; the history of ideas, science and technology, persecution and oppression and beliefs. Through social history, we study the diversity of societies so that the experiences of people based on gender and ethnic origins are seen as an integral part of history.

Year 7

Autumn	Spring	Summer
Romans Britain	Middle Ages	Beliefs and ideas through time
Dark Ages	Tudors & Stuarts

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

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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

Year 8

Autumn	Spring	Summer
The Mughal Empire	Industrial Revolution	London in World War Two
The British Empire	Democracy in Britain

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

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KS3 Assessment:

Year 9

Autumn	Spring	Summer
Turning points in the 20th century The Impact of Dictators, Totalitarianism and Genocide on society	Post-War Britain Britain in the 50s and 60s	Britain in the 70s/80s/90s

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Turning points in the 20th century

The Impact of Dictators, Totalitarianism and Genocide on society

Post-War Britain

Britain in the 50s and 60s

Britain in the 70s/80s/90s

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:

Key Stage 4

Year 10

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.

Autumn	Spring	Summer
Medicine in Britain, c1250–present The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18	Early Elizabethan England (1558-88) Superpower relations and the Cold War (1941-91)	Weimar and Nazi Germany (1918-39)

Autumn

Spring

Summer

Medicine in Britain, c1250–present

The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18

Early Elizabethan England (1558-88)

Superpower relations and the Cold War (1941-91)

Weimar and Nazi Germany (1918-39)

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

Paper	Topic	Type of study	Exam time	marks	% of grade
1	Medicine in Britain, c1250–present	Thematic study	1 hour 15 minutes	36	30%
1	The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18	Historic environment	1 hour 15 minutes	16	30%
2	Early Elizabethan England (1558-88)	British depth study	1 hour 45 minutes	32	40%
2	Superpower relations and the Cold War (1941-91)	Period study	1 hour 45 minutes	32	40%
3	Weimar and Nazi Germany (1918-39)	Modern Depth Study	1 hour 20 minutes	52	30%

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.

Year 11

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):

Paper	Topic	Type of study	Exam time	marks	% of grade
1	Medicine in Britain, c1250–present	Thematic study	1 hour 15 minutes	36	30%
1	The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18	Historic environment	1 hour 15 minutes	16	30%
2	Early Elizabethan England (1558-88)	British depth study	1 hour 45 minutes	32	40%
2	Superpower relations and the Cold War (1941-91)	Period study	1 hour 45 minutes	32	40%
3	Weimar and Nazi Germany (1918-39)	Modern Depth Study	1 hour 20 minutes	52	30%

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.

Examination Board :

OCR

Course Specification:

OCR GCSE History A(9-1) - J410

Qualification obtained:

GCSE History

Additional Information

Useful Websites

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

Useful Reading Material

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

Enrichment

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.