History / Government & Politics
History Curriculum Aims:
- Throughout the curriculum, students engage with a high-quality, well-sequenced, challenging and engaging History curriculum across KS3-5 that raises attainment and ensures achievement for all.
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The seven-year curriculum is broad, balanced and inclusive and its implementation ensures that students of ALL backgrounds and abilities can access, engage with and master key skills in History.
- The curriculum is designed to develop and enrich students’ powerful knowledge and nurture schema so that all students can create links between the past and present and throughout their whole school curriculum, enabling them to be life-long learners.
Government & Politics Curriculum Aims:
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To deliver an engaging and current politics curriculum which is sequenced, so pupils can apply political concepts to contemporary politics
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To ensure pupils develop the fundamental knowledge which underpins political theory from core ideologies through to the political systems of the UK and the USA.
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To develop pupils who are passionate, have developed personal opinions and are able to debate and form justified arguments on key political theories and contemporary issues in politics.
Click on the links below to view each file:
- History Learning Journey
- KS3 History Year 7 Assessment Criteria
- KS3 History Year 8 Assessment Criteria
Teaching Colleagues
Mrs N Seymour:
Subject Leader History, Politics and RS
Ms J Prosbik:
2nd i/c History
Mr C Murphy
Teacher of History and Politics/Assistant Head, Director of 6th Form
Mrs A Jobson
Teacher of History and Politics/Head of Year 8
Mr S Banfield
Teacher of Humanities/Assistant Head of Year 7
Mr D Powel
Teacher of Humanities/Assistant Head of Year 12 and 13
Mrs S Tobin
Teacher of History and Politics
Mr S Clenaghan
Teacher of History
KS3
Year 7: 3 lessons per fortnight
Year 8: 3 lessons per fortnight
KS4
GCSE+ Curriculum
Exam Board: Edexcel
All pupils complete the following modules:
Crime and Punishment
Superpower Relations and the Cold War
Early Elizabethan England
Weimar and Nazi Germany
Year 9: 4 lessons per fortnight
Year 10: 5 lessons per fortnight
Year 11: 5 lessons per fortnight
KS5
A-Level History Curriculum
Exam Board: Edexcel
Year 12: 9 lessons per fortnight, 1 assessment period
Year 13: 9 lessons per fortnight, 1 assessment period
A-Level Government and Politics Curriculum
Exam Board: Edexcel
Year 12: 9 lessons per fortnight, 1 assessment period
Year 13: 9 lessons per fortnight, 1 assessment period