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History Staff |
Department Information |
Curriculum Leader (Humanities) – Mr J Souter (ext 13275)
Co-ordinator of History – Miss D Moody
Teacher – Miss H Staton (Assistant Headteacher - Director of Inclusion)
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History
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Key Stage 3
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The topics that will be delivered are as follows:
Topic
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Topic focus |
Assessment |
Year 7 |
The Power of the King |
Chronology, Source Work, the Battle of Hastings, Castles, the Church |
The Battle of Hastings Assessment |
How did Elizabeth and Charles deal with challenges to their power? |
Mary Queen of Scots, The Spanish Armada, the English Civil War, Puritans, Oliver Cromwell |
Cromwell; Hero or Villain Assessment |
What was life like in Nineteenth Century Britain? |
The Industrial Revolution, Cholera, Children in the Mills |
Children in the Mills Assessment |
| Year 8 |
Was Everybody Equal? |
The Slave Trade, the Trade Triangle, the Middle Passage, Life on the Plantations, Why did Slavery end? Suffragists and Suffragettes, Women in the War |
How did women achieve the vote? Assessment |
The First World War |
Causes, the Assassination at Sarajevo, Conditions in the Trenches, Recruitment |
Causes of the First World War Assessment |
The Second World War |
Hitler, Life in Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, Dunkirk, the Home Front, the Atomic Bomb |
Dunkirk Assessment |
History will be taught over the course of 2 periods over the 2 week timetable cycle. This equates to approximately 7 hours per term, 40 hours per academic year and 80 hours over the KS3 course. History will be taught in the main in rooms IO3, IO4 and IO6. Most of the resources will be kept in room IO4 as it is not shared with other departments.
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Key Stage 4 - Why Study History
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History is about people, real people whose lives were sometimes exciting, like travelling across the Wild West in a wagon train, and sometimes frightening, like having an operation before the development of anaesthetics. Whatever their lives were about there is a fascinating and sometimes tragic story behind them.
As well as being exciting, this courese will help you develop skills which will be ueful in a wide range of jobs or in the further study of History.
You will study:
Medicine through time and The American West 1840 – 1895.
You will learn the following skills
- How to interpret and evaluate pieces of information (sources)
- How to communicate and apply your knowledge
- How to describe and analyse the key featues of the period studies
- Critical thinking and problem solving.
You will have the opportunity to study photographs, films, CDs and original written sources. |
Key Stage 4 - GCSE
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Examination Board – OCR – School’s History Project.
This consists of 3 main units:
The American West, Medicine Through Time and a piece of Controlled Assessment on Northern Ireland and the Troubles which is completed in the second year of the course. |
Assessment
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The examination papers cover the full range of grades from A* to G. There are three aspects to your assessments.
Controlled Assessment
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Paper 1 – 2 hours |
Paper 2 – 1 hour 30 mins |
One piece of controlled assessment worth 25% of your final mark. |
The paper is divided into two sections:
Section A – One compulsory question plus one from a choice of three on Medicine Through Time
Section B - One compulsory question plus one from a choice of two on the American West. |
Six compulsory questions on a range of sources and a detailed investigation of an historial issue taken from Medicine Through Time. |
The topics that will be delivered are as follows:
Unit
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Theme |
Theme focus |
Assessment |
| The American West |
1. The Great Plains and the Plains Indians. |
Conditions on the Great Plains, Beliefs of the Indians, Indian Homes |
Paper 1
Written exam
2 hours
(Combined with paper 2 = 75% of final grade) |
| 2. Why did settlers move onto the Great Plains? |
Attitudes towards the Indians, Pioneers, Mormons, the Gold Rush, Homesteaders |
| 3. Cattle ranching moving onto the Plains. |
Cowboys, Ranching, the Open Range, Law and Order |
| 4. Conflict between the Indians and the Americans. |
US army, The Battle of the Little Big Horn, Custer, Reservations |
| Medicine Through Time |
1. Prehistoric Medicine |
How healthy were people in prehistoric times, Believed cause of illness, Treatments |
Paper 2
Written exam
1 hour 30 minutes
(Combined with paper 1 = 75% of final grade) |
| 2. The Ancient World |
Beliefs, Causes of illness and Treatments in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome |
| 3. The Middle Ages |
The Black Death, Medieval Doctors, The Church and Medicine, Arab Medicine |
| 4. The Renaissance |
Key Individuals; Vesalius, Pare and Harvey, The Great Plague, Treatments, Jenner |
| 5. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Medicine |
Pasteur, Koch, Penicillin, Nightingale, Nursing, Surgery, Public Health |
| Controlled Assessment |
Conflict in Northern Ireland |
The Troubles in Northern Ireland |
Essay Question
8 hours
25% of final grade |
At GCSE students will be taught for 5 periods over the 2 weeks and this equates to 32.5 hours per term and 162.5 hours over the academic year and 325 hours over the two years of a GCSE.
Every unit comes with a lesson by lesson scheme of work – with accompanying power points and lesson resources. Revision materials and past exam papers are all accessible to students via Moodle. |
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