The History curriculum provides students with an opportunity to engage with past societies both within the British Isles as well as globally. Therefore, allowing students to integrate and interweave the wide ranges of historical voices and narratives as well as give students the skills to analyse and evaluate in an academic format.
Students will be encouraged to enhance critical skills and an analytical frame of mind as students develop ‘second-order thinking’ such as causation, historical change, source analysis, historical significance and interpretations. Having studied history, students will come away with a deeper understanding of how past events have formed the world around them. Cultivating a sense of respect and pride for themselves and an understanding of cultural differences.
| Year Group | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 | Term 5 | Term 6 |
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| Year 7 | Migration in Britain and the Norman Conquest | Life in Medieval Britain | The Islamic Golden Age and the Crusades | The problems of the Medieval Monarchs | The Black Death and the Peasants Revolt | Medway History |
| Year 8 | The Tudors and the challenges with religion | The Stuarts and the English Civil War | The Transatlantic slave trade | The British Empire | The Industrial Revolution | The Suffragettes and the vote |
| Year 9 | The build up and break out of WWI | The end of WWI and the interwar years | The break out of WWII and the major events | The Holocaust | World Conflicts after WWII | Conflict in the Middle East |
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| Oak Academy Subject: History | Teacher Hub | Oak National Academy (thenational.academy) |
| Historical Association Student / Historical Association (history.org.uk)
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| Seneca Learning Seneca | GCSE History Revision (senecalearning.com)
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| Carousel Learning https://www.carousel-learning.com/ |
| History BBC Bitesize GCSE History - BBC Bitesize |
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| The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 by Frank Barlow
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| The Battle of Hastings by M.K. Lawson
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| Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga
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| Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
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| Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went On Strike To Save The Planet by Valentina Camerini |
