Key Stage Three

In Year 7 -9, students will investigate an overarching question of what connected places around the world at different times in History. In Year 7, they will focus on 500-1500AD, Year 8 will focus on 1500-1900 and Year 9, 1900 to present. Topics move between a local, British and world focus.

Each topic builds towards answering the overarching question by developing their understanding of five key themes running through the curriculum: Empire, Trade and exchanges of ideas, Everyday lives and beliefs, Movement of people and Power and protest. At the end of each year, students will use the specific examples they have identified for each theme to answer the overarching question.  

Key Stage Four

During Key Stage Four, students will follow the OCR SHPsyllabus. The course is broken down into three exam papers. Paper 1 has a British focus and includes a thematic and depth study. The thematic study follows People’s Health, 1250-present and the depth study focuses on the Norman Conquest, 1065-87. For paper 2, students will study a specific site. We have built our site study into our WW1 Battlefields Trip to Belgium and France by focusing on Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial. Paper 3 has a world focus and includes a period and depth study. The period study focuses on the Making of America, 1789-1900 and the depth study explores Life under Nazi rule, 1933-45.

The skills they will be assessed on is how well they demonstrate their knowledge and understanding; explain and analyse historical events and periods in relation to change and continuity, cause and consequence, similarity and difference and significance; analyse, evaluate and use sources and interpretations to make their own detail judgements.