A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. Teaching should equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
An understanding of History at local, national and world level, will also help them develop their own identities. By engaging with the past, they are better able to ask and answer questions of the present. We aim to fire students’ curiosity and imagination, showing them the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past.
Key Stage 3
The History curriculum is planned & delivered in line with the Key Stage 3 Bailiwick History Entitlements document.
Year 7 topics:
1066 & the Norman Conquest; William the castle builder; Religion in the Middle Ages and the Crusades; Power in the Middle Ages including the Magna Carta; Developments in Health in the Middle Ages; Local History- How Guernsey & Alderney became part of England instead of France
Year 8 topics:
The Wars of the Roses and the Tudors; Civil War and Restoration; The Empire & Colonisation; Industrial Revolution; Victorian Alderney; Slave Trade; Modern Slavery; Historical Enquiry into the kingdoms in Mali
Year 9 topics:
20th Century protests -Fight for rights; World War One; Interwar Years; World War Two; Cold War; Historical Environment (currently Globe Theatre but changes every year).
Key Stage 4
Course Content:
- Health and the People- c1000 to present
- Elizabethan England c1568 - 1603
- The Inter-war Years- 1918-39.
- Germany 1891-1945
How we study:
In Yr. 10 & 11 we have three lessons per week. Lessons are heavily orientated towards teaching the content and exam techniques required for the GCSE History AQA 8145 spec. Every effort is made to make lessons engaging, challenging and enjoyable for students with an emphasis on students assisting their own learning through independent study.