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Key Stage 3 Summary
Across Key Stage 3 in History, we focus on building the skills that students need to be great historians, as well as being informed, aware and critical members of society.
Units are focused around four key skill strands:
- Change, cause & consequence- explaining and analysing how and why things change, and what influences these changes
- Using sources- being able to critically analyse and reflect on different sources of information and using them to make informed judgements
- Interpretations of history- analysing how and why people have looked at historical events in different ways
- Significance- analysing how and why people have given more importance to certain people or events through history
In each year, we will try and target most, if not all, of these key strands at least once through the following topics:
| Bridge Academy History Curriculum – KS3 | |||||||
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| Key Themes | HT1 | HT2 | HT3 | HT4 | HT5 | HT6 |
| Year 7
| Students will analyse and evaluate the shift in power and influence between the Church, Monarch and Government across year 7. | To what extent did early invaders change Britain? A study on how the Romans, Saxons and Vikings changed Britain. | Why was the Norman Conquest successful?
| How significant was religion throughout the Middle Ages? This study includes the Crusades, Black Death, Peasants Revolt, Medieval Healthcare etc. | What was the most significant change during the Tudor dynasty? | Explain why the English Civil War changed the power of the monarchy. | Revision |
| Year 8
| Students will analyse and evaluate how the lives of ordinary people changed due to the fight for individual liberty. Students will consider a range of factors including the government, publicity and the role of the individual. | How can we understand how prosperous West African Kingdoms were? A study of the kingdoms of Mali, Songhay, Benin and Asante. How were the lives of the people in British colonies affected by the British Empire? | How far do you agree that the role of the individual was the main reason why Britian abolished slavery? | To what extent did the Industrial Revolution make people’s lives worse? Which factors contributed to women winning the vote? | What caused the outbreak and end of WWI? | To what extent did the Russian Revolution change the lives of ordinary people? | Revision |
| Year 9
| Students will analyse and evaluate the impact that conflict has had on the lives of people across the world. | How did the Nazi’s establish a dictatorship in Germany? | How can sources help us learn about WWII? | How can we use sources to learn about 20th century genocide? | How did Cold War rivalry impact global conflict? | What was the most successful factor in the fight for civil rights?HTS | Revision |
Key Stage 4 Summary
The current year 10 cohort and future cohorts will complete the AQA GCSE History specification. This will be a two-year course and will be assessed by two examinations at the end of year 11, each making up 50% of the final grade. There is no coursework.
The GCSE History content comprises the following elements, and will be assessed in the form of examinations, each making up 25% of the final grade:
- One period study - Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship
- One thematic study - Britain: Health and the People: c1000 - the present day
- One wider world depth study - Conflict and Tension between East and West, 1945-1972
- One British depth study including the historic environment - Elizabethan England, c1568-1603
At GCSE we study Edexcel History over a two-year course.
The course is divided up into four units:
- Paper 1 (30% of GCSE): Migrants in Britain, c800–present (including the Historic environment of Notting Hill, c1948–c1970)
- Paper 2 Part A (20%): Early Elizabethan England, 1558–88
- Paper 2 Part B (20%): Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-1991
- Paper 3 (30%): Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
History has no coursework, and students take all examinations at the end of Year 11
The long term plan for GCSE History can be found here
For more information about Edexcel GCSE History (9-1) click here
Recommended textbooks are from the Hodder GCSE History for Edexcel and Edexcel GCSE History (9-1) ranges.
Key Stage 5 Summary
The A Level History course is designed for students with a passion for History and the hunger for intellectual challenge!
It enables students to develop a geographically and chronologically broad understanding of both modern and older History.
At A Level we study OCR History over two years.’
This is made up of the following units:
Unit 1 – England 1485-1558: The Early Tudors (Y106) 25% of A-level
You will learn about the government of Henry VII, his foreign policy and threats to his rule, the reign of Henry VIII, Wolsey, rebellion and unrest, issues of stability and religious changes under the Tudors.
Paper 2 – Russia 1894-1941 (Y219) 15% of A-level
You will gain an understanding in depth of the rule of Tsar Nicholas II, the 1917 Revolutions, the Civil War, Lenin and the rule of Stalin.
Paper 3 – Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 (Y319) 40% of A-level
You will explore the struggles experienced by citizens of the United States in gaining equality before the law, looking specifically at African Americans, Native Americans, women and trade union and labour rights. The unit also comprises three depth studies of civil rights in the ‘Gilded Age’ c.1875–c.1895, the New Deal and Malcolm X and Black Power.
Unit 4 – Coursework (Y100) 20% of A-level
You will conduct research and work towards answering a question of your choice on an area of historical interest.
KS5 History Curriculum, view here
For more information about OCR History A-level click here