History curriculum
Key Stage 3
The new Key Stage 3 curriculum requires History to be taught chronologically and to cover a range of mandatory content areas. Although there are some (unavoidable) chronological overlaps in the Year 9 curriculum, it provides pupils with a clear history narrative to understand Britain’s place within the wider world.
The following curriculum requirements are met:
- Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain 1745-1901 (Slavery)
- Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world: 1901 to the present day (First World War, The Peace Settlement, The Second World War, The Holocaust)
- A local history study (The history of migration to Brixton)
- At least one study of a significant society or issue in world history and its interconnections with other world developments (Civil Rights Movement in USA)
Broad topics include:
- Britain’s transatlantic slave trade
- Why do sources disagree
- Abolition of slavery
- Civil Rights Movement in USA
- Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
- Local History
- What caused WW1?
- Trench warfare
- The Battle of the Somme
- Treaty of Versailles
- The League of Nations
- How did WWII start?
- The Battle of Britain
- The Blitz
- The Holocaust
Key Stage 4
The curriculum follows the Edexcel exam board. Broad topics include:
- Germany
- - The Weimar Republic 1918-29
- - Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party 1919-33
- - The Nazi dictatorship 1933-39
- - Nazi domestic policies 1933-39
- War and the transformation of British Society
- The Liberals, votes for women and social reform 1903-14
- The role of the British on the Western Front 1914-18
- The home front and social change 1914-18