“Waging war on ignorance”
Is to paraphrase the words of Winston Churchill in 1939 when he wrote an article about the need to defeat Fascism in Europe. In many ways it sums up perfectly the aim of our department;
- deliver a knowledge rich curriculum
- ensure all our students leave with a broad understanding of the key events that have shaped our modern world
- foster a genuine respect for the past and understand how it can be abused
- make sure our students can differentiate between fact and opinion
- interrogate sources to make judgements about the reliability of information
- understand how and why factual information about our past can and has been interpreted differently
Year 7
The Saxons / Norman Conquest, and what does it teach us about History?
The Norman control and which methods of control did they use?
Religion / Power and The Black Death.
Why was the Islamic Empire considered to be a Golden Age?
Who were the Tudors?
Did the Renaissance change the world?
Year 8
How did medieval Mali differ from medieval England?
The British Empire and why did it grow?
What was the Industrial Revolution and how did it change Britain?
Did life improve during the Industrial Revolution?
Why did Europe descend into war?
What was the cause of the Second World War?
Year 9
What was the turning point in the Second World War?
What was the Holocaust?
How has Britain changed since the Second World War?
What was the Cold War?
Medieval medicine, what was medicine like in Britain?
Renaissance medicine and what were the causes of disease in Renaissance England?
Year 10 GCSE AQA
Medicine through Time
Weimar and Nazi Germany
Year 11 GCSE AQA
Cold War
Elizabethan England
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