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HISTORY

OVERVIEW

Studying History helps students to develop skills that are useful in the workplace and for future study. These include researching and organising information, analysing and evaluating evidence, and reaching a conclusion they can substantiate. They also learn to think critically and ask questions, identify patterns and trends, and formulate and write a coherent argument. These important skills also help students in other subjects. They discuss their ideas with others, work on group tasks, present their ideas and work independently, developing life skills required in the workplace.

MEET THE STAFF

Mrs. H. Annett

Mrs. M. Annett

Miss. L. Campbell

Mrs. C. McAtee

AIMS

To achieve the stimulation of interest in and enthusiasm for the past.

“If we do not understand the past, we can never change the future!”

Our main objectives for our students are…

  • Develop a feeling for the past.
  • Acquire knowledge and understanding of human activity in the past, linking it, as appropriate, with the present.
  • Develop an understanding of the nature and use of historical evidence, developing skills of enquiry and presentation.
  • Achieve an understanding of the nature of cause and consequence; continuity and change; similarity and difference; the diversity of viewpoints.
  • Develop in the skills of enquiry, investigation, analysis, evaluation and presentation.
  • Promote the development of attitudes by giving pupils an understanding of the society in which they live in order to develop as individuals and to contribute to the country in which they live.
  • Develop essential thinking, study and social skills which will help to make students employable.

KEY STAGE 3

 

YEAR 8

Unit 1: What is History?

Unit 2: 1066 and All That

Unit 3: Norman Life

Unit 4: Black Death

Unit 5: The Normans in Ireland

YEAR 9

Unit 1: Renaissance

Unit 2: Meet the Tudors

Unit 3: Tudor Life

Unit 4: Good Queen Bess

Unit 5: Pilgrims, Plots and Posies

YEAR 10

Unit 1: Partition 1800-1914

Unit 2: Partition 1914-1921

Unit 3: The Twentieth Century

KEY STAGE 4

GCSE History

History subject description at GCSE level.

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KEY STAGE 5

AS / A Level History

History subject description at AS / A Level.

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