History
Welcome to the History Curriculum Area
Personnel
Mrs R. Vinson - Curriculum Leader
Mrs J. Pittman - History Teacher with "Lead Teacher" status
Ms E. Gray - History Teacher with responsibility for Citizenship
Ms. S. Coe - Humanities Teacher
Mrs E. Harris- Humanities Teracher
Mr J. Taylor- Humanities Teacher
Aims
• We want Students to engage with the past and to see its relevance to today.
• We help all students to experience using primary and secondary source material and to develop their skills in interpreting and understanding these forms of information.
• We hope students will enjoy finding out about past events in Britain and around the world.
• We aim to enable every child to access the lessons through a variety of teaching styles, a range of activities and differentiation to support each learner
• We teach skills for life-critical reading, reaching conclusions, investigative approaches, independence and teamwork.
Key Stage 3
Year 7- Medieval Britain (c.1066-1500), The Making of the UK (c.1500-1750) and The Atlantic Slave Trade.
Year 8- Expansion, Trade and Industry (Britain c.1750-1900), World War I and World War II.
Year 9- The Holocaust, Civil Rights Movements, The Formation of Britain and Colonialism.
In Years 8 and 9 Citizenship is also delivered through History.
More details about these topics can be found in the Programmes of Study on the VLE.
Key Stage 4
History is an extremely popular option subject at Ratton with excellent GCSE results, including the highest percentage of A* grades in the school.
We offer the EdExcel History B (Schools History Project) 2HB01 syllabus.
The topics studied at GCSE are:
• Unit 1 (Development Study) Medicine and Treatment (25%)
• Unit 2 (Depth Study) Life in Germany c.1919-1945 (25%)
• Unit 3 (Source Enquiry) The Transformation of Surgery c.1845-1918 (25%)
• Unit 4 (Representations of History) Vietnam 1960-1975 (25%- Controlled Assessment)
Expectations
Come prepared to learn
Come prepared to participate
Respect others
Try your best
Ask for help if you need it
Learn from one another and from your teacher
If you are interested in a topic do some investigating around it in your spare time.
Behave sensibly in lessons so that there is an atmosphere which helps learning.
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