History

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Our Curriculum

History Learning Journey

In Key Stage 3 History students study local, British and world history. This includes learning about significant events, people and changes from the recent and more distant past.

At GCSE, students study:

• Medicine in Britain c. 1250 – present
• Early Elizabethan England
• American West
• The USA 1954 – 75: Conflict at home and abroad

Exam

Exam Board: Edexcel

Specification: History 1HI0

Exam: Paper 1 – 1 hour 15 minutes (30%) Paper 2 – 1 hour 45 minutes (40%) Paper 3 – 1 hour 20 minutes (30%)

Trips & Activities

• Year 7 Humanities visit to Chichester to extend thinking and enquiry skills
• Year 7 Trip to see Tutankhamen exhibition
• Year 9 RE/History visit to holocaust survivor at Chichester Cathedral
• Year 9 and 10 History residential trip to World War I battlefields in Belgium and France.
• Year 9 and 10 History/RE residential trip to Auschwitz
• GCSE History trip to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
• Links to specific events such as Black History Month and Holocaust Day

Staff

Mrs D McGarry BA (Hons) – Leader of History

Mr M Burns BSc (Hons) – Teacher of History and Geography

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