History

The national and school curriculum for History aims to ensure that all pupils:

• know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological
  narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped
  this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
• know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of
  ancient civilisations; the expansion and dissolution of empires; characteristic features
  of past non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind
• gain and deploy a historically grounded understanding of abstract terms such as
  ‘empire’, ‘civilisation’, ‘parliament’ and ‘peasantry’
• understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and
  consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make
  connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and
  create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses
• understand the methods of historical enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously
  to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and
  interpretations of the past have been constructed
• gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts,
  understanding the connections between local, regional, national and international
  history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history; and
  between short- and long-term timescales.

The History curriculum overview can be found here:

The KS4 course specification for History can be found here: https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/history-2016.html. Our paper options are Medicine in Britain (Paper 1), Early Elizabethan England (Paper 2), Superpower Relations and the Cold War (Paper 2) and Weimar & Nazi Germany (Paper 3).

Bookflix is our reading incentive and is linked to rewards through achievement points and other prizes when children read specific numbers of books.

Bookflix displays are in every classroom, which gives teachers the opportunity to recommend books to read around each subject. Children should see which books are trending and newly added, just like the home screen on Netflix!

Here is the list of the current Bookflix books for the department:

The Eagle of The Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff

Summer of Blood: The Peasant’s Revolt of 1831 Dan Jones

Rosa Parks, Little People Big Dreams Lisbeth Kaiser

Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

Extraordinary Women in History Leah Gail

Mudbound Hillary Jordan

The Magna Carta Chronicle: A Young Person’s Guide to 800 years in the Fight For Freedom Christopher LLoyd

In The Garden of Beasts: Love and Terror in Hitler’s Berlin Erik Larson

History Year by Year: The ultimate visual guide to the events that shaped the world