History

Please see below for a detailed Annual Overview.

KS4 – Year 10

In year 10 students will be following the new Edexcel 9-1 GCSE course and study 4 units of work.

• Medicine in Britain 12.50- present.
• British sector on the Western Front 1914-18.
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939.
• The American West. Unit 3.

They will also develop their skills in:

• Describing key features of the period.
• Analysing and evaluating source utility.
• Framing historical questions.
• Explaining causation / change.
• Explaining consequences / significance.
• Agreeing and disagreeing with a statement and making a conclusion
• Writing analytical narrative accounts.

KS4 – Year 11

In year 11 students will be following the new Edexcel 9-1 GCSE course and study 2 units of work.

• The American West, c1835-1895.
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939.
• Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588.

They will also develop their skills in:

• Explaining consequences / significance.
• Writing analytical narrative accounts.
• Source inference
• Explaining causation
• Analysing and evaluating source utility.
• Analysing and evaluating interpretations.