The History department is one of the most successful in the school and regularly achieves good Key Stage 3 and GCSE results. We have three excellent teachers in the department who try their hardest to bring the past to life in their lessons. Here is a brief outline of what you will learn during your history lessons.

Key Stage 3

Year 7

You will learn about various aspects of Medieval England including:

- The struggle for the throne in 1066

- Castles

- Living in a Medieval Village

- The Black Death

- The Murder of Becket

- The Peasants Revolt

Year 8

In year 8 you move on to look at Tudors, Stuarts, Cromwell and the Industrial Revolution. The topics include:

- The Gunpowder Plot

- English Civil War

- England under Cromwell

- Child Labour

- The rise and fall of the British Empire

- Democracy in the 1800s

Year 9

In year 9 things get much more modern! You will look at:

- The First World War

- The inter war years

- The Second World War

- The Cold War

GCSE  (Click the images to link to bitesize revision)

International Relations 1919-1939

• The years between World War One and World War Two, investigating how nations tried to keep the peace.
• The collapse of peace in the 1930’s
• The causes of the Second World War      

USA 1919-1940         

• The 1920’s in the United States (the ‘Roaring Twenties’, boom, women, prohibition, gangsters)
• The Wall Street Crash in 1929
• The Great Depression of the 1930’s.
• The New Deal    

 The Rise of Hitler and the Nazis (controlled assessment topic)    

• How Hitler came to power
• The Nazi State
• Treatment of the Jews in Germany under the Nazis

Britain 1906-18        

• Women’s struggle for the vote
• Home front during World War One
• Liberal Reforms