Number of Sessions Per Week: 3 x 1 Hour lessons over 2 weeks
Homework: At least once over the 2 weeks
The purpose of our History curriculum is to engage our students into the events that have shaped us and our world into what it is today in the 21st Century. Everyone has history – we are living existence of this and represent our ancestors, many of whom will have played important roles in history, maybe even fighting in World War I or World War II. The Year 7 and Year 8 curriculum is designed to help our students appreciate their own culture and heritage as citizens of Great Britain and the wider world, to stimulate their curiosity and imagination as well as enabling them to think through complicated issues, reflect on the morality of actions in the past before presenting their judgements as reasoned arguments.
Year 7
The Neolithic Revolution
Roman Britain
The Norman Conquest
The Feudal System
The Domesday Book
The Death of Thomas Becket
The Magna Carta
The Black Death
The Peasants Revolt
The Renaissance, Martin Luther and the European Reformation;
The divorce crisis, Henry VIII and the English Reformation;
Henry’s children, the Counter Reformation, Elizabeth 1st, the Spanish Armada and Mary Queen of Scots;
The reign of James 1st, the Gunpowder Plot and the Pendle Witches;
The Causes of the Civil War;
Cromwell Hero or Villain and Life in the Commonwealth;
The Glorious Revolution
Year 8
The Agricultural and Industrial Revolution
Child Workers in the 18th and 19th century
Protest and Reform, Britain 1750-1900
The Peterloo Massacre
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Causes of World War One
Life in the Trenches
The Battle of the Somme & Field Marshall Haig
Women’s Suffrage
The Russian Revolution
The Rise of Hitler
Life in Hitler’s Germany
The Holocaust
The events of World War Two:
The Evacuation of Dunkirk
The Battle of Britain
The Blitz
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb.
Lessons involve a variety of teaching styles and independent work is encouraged. We believe that by allowing pupils to participate in a range of activities, they will develop the necessary academic and social skills to make progress in school, life, learning and work.
