History
The Department:
The department prides itself on using a variety of teaching methods to involve and motivate students. We have a range of resources so that students of all ability levels have access to the National Curriculum.
Why we teach History:
We try to encourage students to have an interest in the past.
Through history, students can learn about the origins and story of their family and of other groups to which they belong. They can learn more about their community and country, and about institutions, beliefs, values and customs.
People from many different cultures now live in Britain. We hope that studying the history of other societies and countries will help students to understand, respect and be tolerant of views different from their own. The study of British History enables students to understand fully the society in which they grow up.
The study of history should help students to understand more easily what is happening in Britain and the rest of the world today.
Many of the skills which we need as adults are taught through history e.g.:
- learning to see events from different points of view
- understanding why different accounts of the same event may not agree
- being able to make reasoned arguments to defend your opinions
- being able to decide what you believe is true
Key Stage 3:
The topics which we cover are as follows:-
- Conflict
- Ordinary Lives
- World Wars
- Black Peoples of the Americas
- Movement of Peoples
- Empires
- Crime and Punishment
- Power
GCSE
Students in Years 10 and 11 will follow the Edexcel Schools History Project. This will involve study of the following topics:
- The American West
- The American Civil Rights Movement (course work)
- Medicine through time
- Surgery