History

Year 7-9 Curriculum Overview

Year 10-11 Curriculum Overview

At KS3 students cover history from the Anglo-Saxon period through to the modern day. These topic cover important concepts and issues, such as kingship, protest, empire, race and migration, and how they have evolved and been interpreted over time. The topics and enquiry questions that we study is designed to challenge students' thinking and understanding of history and the world around them and to recognise how they can have an impact in today's society.

How will it be assessed?

Students' learning is regularly assessed during lessons, with formal assessments being completed on specific topics and at the end of terms. To assist students, knowledge organisers are provided to all students at the beginning of each term, detailing key knowledge that students need to know.

Throughout the year, class teachers will use student classwork, homework, and end of term assessments to assess whether a student's knowledge is emerging, secure, or advanced; the result of this assessment is then shared with students and parents via the Year 7, 8 and 9 Progress Reports, which are emailed home.

Paper 1: Thematic study and historic environment

Crime and Punishment: 1000-present

This first part of the unit is divided into four time periods
c.1000-c.1500: medieval England
c.1500-1700: Early Modern Period in England
c.1700-c1900: Crime and Punishment in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
c.1900-present: Crime and Punishment in modern Britain

Students needs to the following for each time period that is studied:
The types of laws the were common
How crime was prevented and how crimes were caught
Punishments for crimes
One case study

Historic Environment - Whitechapel during the 1880s

The second part of the unit is the historic environment which is Whitechapel during the Ripper murders
Knowledge, selection and use of sources for historical enquiries

Paper 2: Period study - Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91

Key topic 1: The origins of the Cold War, 1941–58
Key topic 2: Cold War crises, 1958–70
Key topic 3: The end of the Cold War, 1970–91


Paper 2: British depth study - Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88

Key topic 1: Queen, government and religion, 1558-69
Key topic 2: Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569-88
Key topic 3: Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558-88

Paper 3: Modern depth study - Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939

Key topic 1: The Weimar Republic 1918-29
Key topic 2: Hitler's rise to power, 1919-33
Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933-39
Key topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39


Course Assessment
Paper 1 - 30% written exam - 1 hr 15 minutes
Paper 2 - 40% written exam - 1 hr 45 minutes
Paper 3 - 30% written exam - 1 hr 20 minutes

What will I achieve?

GCSE History qualification

Edexcel GCSE History (2016) | Pearson qualifications

Pearson-Edexel-GCSE-(9-1)-History.pdf

• Revision guides and flash cards: ensure that you purchase the correct specifications / units for your child - check the course specific information above. There are several different revision guides available, please ask your child’s teacher for advice as to which revision guide would best suit your child. Some companies have produced pre-made flash cards, but please ensure that your child has flash cards for the correct exam board (Edexcel) and units before purchasing these.
• BBC Bitesize: ensure that students use content aimed at the correct exam board and units - KS3 for Y7, Y8, Y9 and GCSE (Edexcel) for Y10, and Y11. Please note: not all GCSE unit are currently covered in detail by BBC Bitesize but they are regularly updating.
• Senecalearning.com: ensure that students use the correct code when joining their History class’s Seneca. Class teachers will provide students with a class code which will enable students to join their class, adding the relevant courses automatically, giving teachers the ability to monitor the time spent revising on Seneca by each student. Assignments can be set by teachers to ensure that students are revising relevant topics, or students can work their own way through courses.
• GCSEpod: students have access to hundreds of podcasts on GCSEpod which they can use to further their revision of GCSE topics. The site is broken down into units and then specific topics o students can focus their learning on what they would like to revise most.
• Revision resources on TCS SharePoint and Teams,(GCSE students). Students will need to use their school ICT username and password to access TCS SharePoint and Teams.

• Encourage your child to read around the subject - looking at historical articles, or the news or reading interesting articles from publications such as History Today or BBC History Magazine are a great way for students to develop their understanding of history and the world we live in.
• Ensure your child is using their revision guide and other revision tools to prepare for unit tests and exams.
• Check they are doing their homework, ask to see it.
• Test their spelling skills, and ensure they have learnt difficult keyword definitions.
• Encourage the weekly production of revision tools (such as mind maps, revision cards, timeline, past paper question plans) and the completion of practice exam questions. All GCSE students have access to a spreadsheet with all past paper questions on, or they can get paper copies of questions from their class teacher.
• Students should make use of mark schemes to check any practice papers or exam questions they have completed so that they can identify where they have gained and lost marks - a great deal can be gained from unpicking questions and understanding what marks are awarded for.

• Year 9: First World War Battlefields school trip to France & Belgium
• Year 11: Germany school trip to Berlin