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

Key Stage 4

Key Stage 5

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

The Restoration –

Websites

BBC – History: Middle Ages

Subject Leader: Mr Paul Lightfoot

Email: plightfoot@christtheking.notts.sch.uk