Key Stage 3

Year 7 unit of study is as follows:

• A ‘What is History?’ study covering historical skills and concepts
• A unit investigating the ‘Norman Conquest’ and asking if 1066 is the most important year in English History?
• A study of ‘Medieval Monarchs’ covering Henry II and King John.
• A unit focused on the ‘Tudors’ and asking if the Tudors really were terrible?
• A study of the ‘English Civil War’ and investigation into why Charles I had to lose his head.
• A unit focused on ‘The Restoration’.
• Finishing with an investigation into how the role of monarchy has changed from 1066 to 1745.

The Year 8 unit of study is as follows:

• A focus on the ‘Slavery and the British Empire’.
• A unit looking at life in ‘Britain in the 19^th Century’ and investigating how the 19^th century changed people’s lives.
• A study of the ‘First World War’.
• An local study investigation into the part that Shoeburyness played in the First World War
• A unit of study based on the ‘Interwar Years’.
• A unit on the ‘Second World War’.
• Finishing with an investigation into migration in the surrounding areas.

The year 9 unit of study is as follows:

• We begin the year by studying the Cold War and investigate the tensions and conflicts during that time
• An investigation into ‘How did people fight for their rights in the 20^th Century?
• Finishing with a unit on the Holocaust

GCSE History: 

The GCSE History content comprises the following elements:

• one period study -  Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship
• one thematic study - Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day
• one wider world depth study - Conflict and tension in Asia, 1950–1975
•  one British depth study including the historic environment - Elizabethan England, c1568–1603

The GCSE is assessed by 2 exams both 2 hours long.  Each paper is worth 84 marks with 4 marks for SPaG.  Both examinations are sat at the end of Year 11.  There is NO Controlled Assessment.
 

Year 12 and 13 - AQA

Students will study two units which are examination based from the AQA A Level with a non-exam assessment:

• The Tudors: 1485-1603 (40% of the A Level)
• The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980 (40% of the A Level)
• Non-exam assessment based on a historical investigation which is completed in Year 13 (20% of the A Level).

The course is assessed through two 2 hours 30mins examinations at the end of Year 13.

 

Rebecca Blowers     History Head of Subject

Vicky Gray                 Humanities Head of Faculty