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Key Stage 3
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What do students study and in what order?
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Year 7
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Year 8
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Skills in History
Norman Conquest
Life during the Middle Ages
Power of the Monarch
Black Death
Peasants’ Revolt
Renaissance
Reformation
Tudors Gunpowder Plot
Civil War
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Assassination of JFK
Industrial Revolution
WWI-Causes and events
Treaty of Versailles
Key events of WWII
Holocaust
Protest 1800-2000
Cold War
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How are students assessed?
Students will be continually assessed through Key Stage 3 them understand how they can improve. This will include peer, self and teacher marking.
In addition, there are 3 formal assessment and an exam. The assessments are based on developing the skills required at GCSE and are marked according to GCSE criteria.
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How can parents best support their child?
- Monitor homework and help with understanding and acting on targets;
- Discuss their learning and carry out research with them;
- Encourage them to watch documentaries, news programmes and films and to read books and talk about what they have discovered;
- Visit historic sites local, national and international to widen their appreciation and understanding of the past.
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Key Stage 4
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What topics do students study and in what order?
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Year 9
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Year 10
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Year 11
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Crime and Punishment 11-20 century
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American West
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USA conflict: Home and abroad 1950s to 1970s
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Anglo-Saxons and Normans
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What exam board do we follow?
Edexcel
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How are students assessed?
3 exams taken at the end of year 11- Externally marked
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How can parents best support their child?
- Monitor homework and help with understanding and acting on targets;
- Encourage them to use the website and to revise using the quizlets and practise questions;
- Encourage them to watch documentaries, news programmes and films and to read books and discuss their learning;
- Visit historic sites local, national and international to widen their appreciation and understanding of the past.
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KS5
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What do students study and in what order?
1K The making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975
2S The Making of Modern Britain, 1951–2007
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Year 12
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Year 13
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USA Part one: from Civil War to World War, 1865–1920
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USA Part two: crises and the rise to World Power, 1920–1975
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Part one: building a new Britain, 1951–1979
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Part two: Modern Britain, 1979–2007
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NEA Historical Enquiry
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What exam board do we follow?
AQA
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How are students assessed?
Externally marked-
Component 1 1x 2 1/2-hour exam
Component 2 1x 2 1/2-hour exam
NEA internally marked and externally moderated
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How can parents best support their child?
- Monitor home study commitment of 4 hour a week;
- Encourage them to revise proactively using practise questions;
- Encourage them to watch documentaries, news programmes and films and to read books and newspapers and discuss the links to their learning;
- Encourage them to express opinions and justify their view;
- Visit historic sites local, national and international to widen their appreciation and understanding of the past.
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