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Overview
Our History curriculum ensures that students understand the past and how that shapes the present. The curriculum achieves this by ensuring students have a broad and substance knowledge and a coherent picture of the past. Students study various social and political worlds and how they shape society. Students will develop a chronological narrative of British History and areas of world history. Students will develop a sense of the past which will then transform how they see the world.
Year 7
Students will develop key historical skills such as chronology and source analysis. They will produce extended pieces of writing supporting them in their ability to describe /explain and analyse. Students will study change and continuity across a theme, e.g. Warfare & British Society c.1000s – present; they will complete an enquiry into the historic environment - London, WW2 (The Blitz); students finish Year 7 by completing a period study on Empire & Slavery.
SIRIUS students will take part in a WW1 project (Cheshire East Reflects).
Summer Term:
Visit to the International Slavery Exhibition at the Maritime Museum in Liverpool.
Year 8
Students continue to develop and enhance their historical knowledge and skills in preparation for GCSE. Students will become more proficient at handling sources and analysing and evaluating them. They will consider why there are different interpretations of history, and they will continue to write in depth. They will complete two period studies – Victorian Britain c.1837-c.1901 and World War One. Students will complete a depth study into Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. They will complete their studies by looking at change and continuity across the theme of The Changing Position of Women in British Society AD61-c.1940s.
SIRIUS students will take part in a WW1 project (Cheshire East Reflects).
Spring Term 1:
Students will participate in the Anne Frank Trust Exhibit.
Year 9
In Year 9 students will begin to complete their Edexcel GCSE History 9-1 course. Students will be examined on three different papers:
Paper 1: Thematic study & historic environment
Option 10: Crime & Punishment in Britain
c1000-present & Whitechapel
c1870-c1900: Crime, policing and the inner city
Paper 2: Period Study and British Depth Study
Anglo-Saxon and Norman England,
c1060-88 & Superpower relations the Cold War 1941-91
Paper 3: Modern Depth Study
Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39 .
They will develop key historical skills such as being able to explain the reasons why something happened; making valid inferences from source material; studying interpretations of the past and being able to analyse why interpretations differ; explaining the usefulness of sources when completing an enquiry and being able to explain the consequences of key events in history.
Spring Term 1:
Students will participate in the Anne Frank Trust Exhibit.
Year 10
They will continue to develop and master key historical skills such as being able to explain the reasons why something happened; making valid inferences from source material; studying interpretations of the past and being able to analyse why interpretations differ; explaining the usefulness of sources when completing an enquiry and being able to explain the consequences of key events in history.
Spring Term 1:
Students will participate in the Anne Frank Trust Exhibit.
Year 11
Year 11 students will complete their OCR GCSE Modern World History B course. Over the course of Year 11 they will complete:
Controlled Assessment Task:
Option 4: The USA, Land of Freedom? 1945–1975. (25%)
Paper 2 Unit A022:
How far did British society change, 1939−1975? (30%)
Covering topics such as Teenagers, the creation of the Welfare State & the NHS; immigration into Britain after WW2 and the changing role of women.
Paper 1:
Germany & The Origins of the Cold War 1945-75. (45%)
Students will enhance their ability to write about sources critically and to support their evaluations with detailed knowledge of the events being referred to; they will be able to interpret and explain the message of sources, as well as understanding why a source was produced at a particular time; why sources are useful/reliable. They will be able to describe/explain and analyse key historical events and they will be able to reach their own conclusions.
Spring Term 1:
Students will participate in the Anne Frank Trust Exhibit.
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