“Those who don’t know History are doomed to repeat it”
– Edmund Burke
What Will You Do - KS3?
Year 7
- What is History?
- The Norman Conquest
- Society, economy and culture in Medieval Britain: feudalism, religion in daily life (parishes, monasteries, abbeys), farming, trade and towns art, architecture and literature
- The Black Death and its social and economic impact
- The Peasants’ Revolt
- The Wars of the Roses; Henry VII and attempts to restore stability
Year 8
- The English Reformation and Counter Reformation (Henry VIII to Mary I)
- The Elizabethan religious settlement and conflict with Catholics (including Scotland, Spain and Ireland)
- The Stuarts (1603-1714)
- Britain as the first industrial nation
- Britain’s transatlantic slave trade: its effects and its eventual abolition
- The development of the British Empire
Year 9
- The First World War and the Peace Settlement
- The inter-war years: the Great Depression, the rise of dictators and the rise of America
- The Second World War and the wartime leadership of Winston Churchill
- The Holocaust
- The changing nature of health and the people
What Will You Do - KS4?
Pupils undergoing GCSE examinations from June 2018 are currently studying AQA GCSE History. A full specification can be viewed via the following link:
www.aqa.org.uk
Our new GCSE History specification combines the most popular topics from our existing specifications, so you can still teach well-established periods of history as …
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Paper One- Understanding the Modern World (1 hour 45 minutes)
- Section A Period Study: AD America, 1920–1973: Opportunity and inequality
- Section B Wider World Depth Study: BD Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950-1975
Paper Two- Shaping the Nation (1 hour 45 minutes)
- Section A Thematic Study: AA Britain: Health and the people, c1000 to the present day
- Section B British Depth Study including the historic environment: BC Elizabethan England, c1568–1603
For further information please contact Miss D Dance, Head of the History Department