What valuable knowledge can I expect my child to gain?
Department Vision Statement
KS3
It is our intention to create a spiral curriculum which allows students to make thematic and chronological connections across KS3 and into KS4. Assessment will build upon knowledge and skills as students move through the Key Stage. It will develop across 3 key strands; knowledge, source analysis and extended writing. Assessments have been carefully designed to encourage students to link prior learning with new knowledge in order to improve retention of information. Our assessments are also designed to build confidence with smaller multiple-choice questions building up to lengthier essay questions in order to allow all students to access our subject and go on to achieve. It will create a solid foundation of knowledge and skills for students to build upon as they enter KS4 but, through careful selection of key content, it will also prepare all students for life in Modern Britain.
It is our intention that students will enjoy our subject and we have integrated opportunities within our curriculum for independent study, debate and for them to share with us their own histories. As a department we have a great love for our subject, and we hope that students will end Year 9 with a shared enthusiasm but also a greater understanding of current affairs and be able to make informed opinions of the events that are occurring around them.
Exam Groups
For students to achieve in our subject and have the choice to continue at higher levels, it is our intent to focus on developing the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in the exams that they must sit. Our intent it that the curriculum will be planned in such a way that all students have the time they need to accrue new knowledge, understand how to apply this to the question stems they will be presented with and develop the confidence to review and retrieve this in the future. They will be supported regardless of their starting point from key stage 2 and our schemes for learning will include opportunities for students to understand how to improve and reflect on not only their historical knowledge, but also their wider literacy and written communication skills. Following on from our key stage 3 vision we have selected topics which build on previous knowledge and will help them to better understand world politics and alternative cultural beliefs.
Year Group | Autumn Term | Spring Term | Summer Term |
Y7 | Migration to Britain 500AD-2000AD | The impact of the British Empire | Trade and Industry |
Home Learning: | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term |
Y8 | Power through time 1066-1603 | Power and protest 1642-1900 | Protest in the Twentieth century |
Home Learning: | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term |
Y9 | Causes of World War One Medicine in the trenches. | Causes of World War Two Nazi Germany Britain’s home front | Conflict around the world after 1945 |
Home Learning: | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term | Knowledge quizzes via Educake x2 per half term |
Y10 | Medicine through time 1250-present | Historic environment USA 1954-75: Civil Rights | USA 1954-75: The war in Vietnam |
Home Learning: | Fortnightly knowledge tests via Educake: Medicine in the trenches Revision for assessments | Fortnightly knowledge tests via Educake: Medicine in the trenches Revision for assessments | Fortnightly tests via Educake & revision for practice exam (Paper 1: Medicine) |
Y11 | American West 1835-95 | Anglo-Saxon and Norman England 1060-88 | Revision |
Home Learning: | Fortnightly knowledge tests via Educake & revision for assessments | Fortnightly knowledge tests via Educake | Guided revision for final exams |
Y12 | Civil Rights in the USA 1865—1992: African Americans -------------------------------- Russia 1894—1941 | Civil Rights in the USA 1865—1992: Native Americans -------------------------------- Russia 1894—1941 | Civil Rights in the USA 1865—1992: Women ------------------------------ Russia 1894—1941 |
Home Learning: | Fortnightly tasks set by teachers | Fortnightly tasks set by teachers | Revision for progress exams |
Y13 | Civil Rights in the USA 1865—1992: African Americans ------------------------------- NEA | Civil Rights in the USA 1865—1992: Native Americans -------------------------------- NEA | Civil Rights in the USA 1865—1992: Women ----------------------------- NEA |
Home Learning: | Fortnightly tasks set by teachers | Fortnightly tasks set by teachers & revision | Revision |
Meet the Team
Mrs E Dobson
Curriculum Area Leader: History
Mrs Godden
Second in Department