The History curriculum is sequenced chronologically to ensure students develop a narrative of British history and can place it into a context of world events. Concepts such as ‘government’ and ‘peasantry’ are introduced early to allow students to track the development of these ideas and define them within different contexts and cultures. For example, peasantry is introduced in year 7 as part of the study of the Black Death and revisited in a different context in Year 8 during the French Revolution. This ensures students will see that historical terms evolve and adapt to context.

Pupils should be taught about:

We offer Edexcel GCSE History. We start Year 10 by studying Paper 1- Medicine through Time, c1250- present with a Historical Environment study of The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914- 1918: injuries, treatments and trenches.

We then move onto Paper 2, which covers Early Elizabethan England, 1558- 1588 and the Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941- 1991.

In Year 11, we examine our final paper, Paper 3- Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918- 1939.