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 |