Subject Information - History

Vision/Aim

Studying History enables pupils to better understand the world and the people around them, whilst stimulating intellectual thought, conversation and debate. A varied and stimulating curriculum is taught throughout all year groups, focussing on significant historical periods in the UK and around the globe which have shaped the world as we know it today. The subject develops a variety of highly valued skills including extended writing, drawing conclusions from multiple sources, researching, presenting and public speaking.  

The subject develops a variety of highly valued skills including extended writing, drawing conclusions from multiple sources, researching, presenting and public speaking.  In addition, it opens many doors for the future, as it is one of the EBAC subjects, so highly recommended.

In years 7 and 8, we offer extra-curricular opportunities such as History based internal and external academic and public speaking competitiions.  Beyond the classroom, the History Department runs field trips, some local such as Hampton Court Palace, the Imperial War Museum and further afield to the battlefields of Belgium and France and, in recent times, the Department has run trips to Berlin.

Resources and support materials can be found on Google Classroom. 

Further information can be requested from the Head of Department, Mr J Boulton jboulton@fhes.org.uk

 

	Autumn Term	Spring Term	Summer Term
Year 7	What is History? The Norman Conquest Medieval Realms	The Tudors The English Civil War	The British Empire The Industrial Revolution The Suffragettes
Year 8	The First World War The USA in the 1920s	The inter-war years The Second World War	US Civil Rights The Cold War

 

GCSE Subject

Exam Board	AQA
NEA	N/A
Paper 1	Understanding the Modern World Section B: Wider world depth studies	Germany 1890 - 1945 Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972
Paper 2	Shaping the Nation Section A: Thematic Studies Section B: British Depth Studies	Health and the People c1000 to the present day Elizabethan England 1568-1603
Link to the Specification	https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/history/gcse/history-8145/specification-at-a-glance

 

Teaching Schedule 

	Autumn Term	Spring Term	Summer Term
Year 9	Germany 1890-1945	Germany 1890-1945	Elizabethan England 1568-1603
Year 10	Elizabethan England 1568-1603	Conflict and Tension between East and West, 1945-1972	Conflict and Tension between East and West, 1945-1972
Year 11	Health and the People c1000 to the present day	Health and the People c1000 to the present day	Revision