History

Curriculum Intent

In History, our intent is:

To create a broad and balanced knowledge and understanding of the history of Britain, set in the context of the wider world
To provide knowledge on a variety of events/ people for students to analyse and build their own judgements using those facts as evidence whilst developing students’ ability to undertake historical enquiry by asking and answering questions
To provide a diversity rich curriculum with regular connections to the local context through the teaching of history at different scales and different depths and breadths
To know and understand a wide variety of historical experiences through a study of social, economic, religious and political histories
To embed the secondary key concepts in history: causation and consequence, similarity and difference, change and continuity, significance, through a chronological study of the past

Curriculum Plan

History Curriculum Overview 2022 2023

Student Learning Journey

History Student Learning Journey

Exam Board Information

Key Stage 4

Edexcel GCSE History (1H10)

Paper 1: Crime and in Britain C1000 to the Present Day
Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War 1947-1991
Paper 2: The American West 1835-1895
Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939

Key Stage 5

AQA A Level History (7042)

1C The Tudors: England 1485-1603
20 – Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918–1945
NEA Social and Political Change in 19^th Century Britain

Reading List

Books

Freedom (1783) by Catherine Johnson

I Am David by Anne Holm

War Horse, Goodnight Mr Tom and Private peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

Horrible histories series

When Hitler stole pink rabbit Judith Kerr

The book thief – Marcus Zusak

The diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank

J Holt: Robin Hood

Graphic Novels

Sapiens A Graphic History, Volume 1: The Birth of Humankind (Sapiens, 1)

Black and British: An Illustrated History by David Olusoga

Podcasts

BBC history home school history

Battle of Hastings https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000jp20

Mary queen of scots – https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3GDZLVN4cJ87MWGFtkVLzqZ/homeschool-history-lesson-mary-queen-of-scots

The Restoration –

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1wzbHq02HJmkjxXGPmqCsQ1/homeschool-history-lesson-the-restoration

Websites

BBC – History: Middle Ages

Spartacus Educational (spartacus-educational.com)

The History Learning Site Covering All Historical Topics

Career Links

An education in History develops a range of skills highly valued by employers such as critical thinking, analytical skills, interpretation, communication, debate and essay writing. Students from Christ the King choose to go on to study History undergraduate degrees every year and further develop these skills which opens doors to careers in Law, Politics, Journalism, Media and Education.

History is a highly-valued and well-respected subject in further education and employment; if you would like more information we recommend you visit https://www.history.org.uk/student/resource/2914/careers-in-history for more information.

Extra Curricular Information

We offer extra-curricular opportunities in each Key Stage to support student learning. In KS3 we visit Nottingham Castle in Year 8 to explore the history of reform and riot as part of our ongoing local history throughout the curriculum. Students in Year 8 study the Holocaust and we will be offering a visit to the National Holocaust Centre in Newark as part of this unit this year.

During the GCSE course we visit the National Justice Museum in Nottingham to introduce the Crime and Punishment unit to see the changing nature of crime, their sanctions and policing over the last millennium in Britain. In Year 12 A Level students visit the Hallward Library at the University of Nottingham to collect sources on political and social change in Britain during the 19^th Century.