Our approach
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Year 11 to 12 Transition Packs
Year 12
Year 13

Secondary & Sixth Form Intent

Our History curriculum prepares our students for university and to be leaders in their community by:

  1. Empowering young people to have confidence to think critically and voice their views.
  2. Developing young people to see how their present world experience is rooted in the past.
  3. Developing young people who question structures, opinions and how the world is used and misused.

So that students are confident in being agents of positive change.

Year 7

Autumn

Ancient Civilisations
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt

Key Concepts
Leaders, Empire, and war

Key Skill
Sources
Cause and Consequence
Spring

Ancient Civilisations
Ancient Greece
The Growth of the Roman Empire

Key Concepts
Leaders, Empire, and war

Key Skill
Similarity and difference
Change and Continuity
Summer

Ancient Civilisations
Roman Britain
The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Viking Invasion

Key Concepts
Power and Consolidation
War and Migration

Key Skill
Cause and Consequence

All Year 7 subjects Next Year 7 Subject - Maths

Year 8

Autumn
Medieval Worlds
Norman Britain
The Islamic Empire and Medieval London

Key Concept
Power and Consolidation
Leaders, empires and war

Key Skill
Change and Continuity
Similarity and Differences
Spring

Medieval England
The Renaissance and Reformation

Key Concept
Power, Learders and Peoples

Key Skill
Sources
Change and Continuity
Summer

The English Civil War
The French Revolution

Key Concept
Power, leaders, the people and war

Key Skill
Cause and Consequence
Interpretations of History

All Year 8 subjects Next Year 8 Subject - Maths

Year 9

Autumn

Industrial Revolution
The early British Empire: Exploration of the West, Colonisation of the Americas, Slavery and Abolition.

Key Concepts
Empire, People and Power

Key Skill
Change and continuity
Significance
Spring

The rise and fall of the British Empire: India and the Scramble for Africa
The Russian Revolution

Key Concept
Empire, Power, and Peoples

Key Skill
Cause and Consequence
Significance
Summer

Causes of WWI and Weimar Germany
The rise of Hitler and the Holocaust

Key Concept
Power, Empire, Wars and the People

Key Skill
Continuity and Change
Interpretations

All Year 9 subjects Next Year 9 Subject - Maths

Year 10

Autumn

Edexcel GCSE Medicine Through Time
1250-1750
1750-Present Day

Key Concept
Change and Continuity

Key Skill
Sources
Causation
Spring

Edexcel GCSE: Weimar and Nazi Germany
The Weimar Republic
The Rise of Hitler
Nazi consolidation of power
Life in Nazi Germany

Key concepts
Social change; operation of power; forces for change
Imposition of state authority; treatment of minorities

Key Skill
Interpretations; why and how they differ
Evaluation of sources
Summer

Edexcel GCSE - British Depth Elizabethan England
Queen, government and religion 1558-1569
Challenges at home and abroad 1568-1588
Elizabethan society and the age of exploration 1558-1588

Key concepts
Power of monarch, challenges to power, religion
empire building, social hierarchy, distribution of power

Key skills
Cause and consequence, change and continuity

All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Maths

Year 11

Autumn

Edexcel GCSE: Superpower Relations and the Cold War
The origins of the Cold War 1941-1960
Cold War crises 1958-70
The end of the Cold War 1970-1971

Concepts
International conflict and cooperation

Key skills
Historical narrative, cause and consequence

Spring
Edexcel GCSE Revision
Weimar Nazi Germany and Superpower relations

Edexcel GCSE Revision
Elizabethan England and Medicine
Summer
Edexcel GCSE Revision
Interleaved - EXAMS

All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Maths

Year 11 to 12 Transition Packs

Year 12

Autumn

Edexcel A level
South Africa - Context and 1948 Elections
South Africa - Apartheid Laws and their Impact
American Dream Key Topic one: Politics 1917-1980
American Dream Key Topic two: Civil Rights 1917-1980

Key Skill
Causation
Sources
Spring

Edexcel A Level
South Africa - Resistance movements to Apartheid
South Africa- The fight to end Apartheid
American Dream Key Topic three: Native American Policy
American dream: Changing Quality of life

Summer

Edexcel A level
South Africa: End of Apartheid
South Africa: Revision and Exam skills
American Dream: Reagan Interpretations
American Dream: Revision and Coursework Introduction

All Year 12 subjects Next Year 12 Subject - Maths

Year 13

Autumn

Edexcel Alevel
Tudor Rebellions Henry VII-Mary I
Tudor Rebellions: Mary I to Elizabeth I.

Coursework
Finalising question and initial reading
Essay Planning
Spring

Revision
South Africa
America

Coursework
Writing and submission
Summer
Exams and Interleaved revision

All Year 13 subjects Next Year 13 Subject - Maths