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. 

• 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:

• To deliver an engaging and current politics curriculum which is sequenced, so pupils can apply political concepts to contemporary politics

• 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.

• 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