What is History?
History is a fascinating subject in which our students study wars between nations, great scientific discoveries, politics, and the wonders of art, magnificent buildings or even peoples’ daily lives. It gives pupils an unparalleled insight into how humans lived. History helps pupils to understand themselves, understand what has happened in the past and therefore it informs pupils of the decisions we can make in the future.
Curriculum
At both Key Stages we offer a wide ranging curriculum to suit the interests of the pupils. The Curriculum is designed to improve pupils’ skills in the five historical concepts of: change and continuity, significance, cause and consequence, historical enquiry and interpretation. Below is a summary of the Key Stage 3 curriculum:
| Autumn 1 |
The History of Sport |
The History of Sport |
The African Diaspora |
| Autumn 2 |
Control: The Battle of Hastings and Castles |
Control: The Battle of Hastings and Castles
|
The Civil Rights Movement |
| Spring 1 |
Control in Medieval England |
Crime: The Gunpowder plot and the Tudor poor |
World War One |
| Spring 2 |
Ordinary people in the Middle Ages |
Crime: The Industrial Revolution and Victorian Britain |
The Second World War and the Holocaust |
| Summer 1 |
Significant events in the 17th Century |
Local Study: The Tudors |
Conflict: Significant events in the 20th Century |
| Summer 2 |
Travel and Transport |
The French Revolution |
Historical Enquiry: What put the swing into the 1960s? |
Year 10 and 11 (AQA A GCSE)
Unit 1A: Medicine Through Time: exam, 35%
Content:
- 3 main topics
- Disease and Infection: changing ideas and practices in the causes, prevention and cure of disease and infection
- Surgery and Anatomy: changes in understanding of anatomy and practice of surgery
Unit 2D: Germany 1919-1945: exam, 40%
Content:
- Strength and weaknesses of Weimar democracy
- How Hitler was able to come to power
- How Hitler created a dictatorship
- How effectively the Nazis controlled Germany
- How much change the Nazis brought about in German society
- How successful the Nazis were in rebuilding the Germany economy
- How successful the Nazis were in influencing young people
- How important the Nazis ideas on race
- How the Nazis changed the cultural climate of Weimar Germany
Unit 3: Historical Enquiry: History Around Us: controlled assessment, 25%
Key historical skills:
- Describing the past and a historical site
- Understanding a representation and describing it
- Evaluating the representation for accuracy and typicality and validity
- Understand an interpretation and describe it
- Evaluate interpretations-drawing conclusions about the validity of an interpretation (using audience, author, evidence used)
- Reliability and utility
History Trips
In September 2011 the Year 11s went on a trip to The Chiselhurst Caves to research their GCSE controlled assessment on the use of Shelters in World War 2 during the Blitz.
At Key stage 3 there are trips to the Tower of London and the Imperial War Museum.
History Department at
The Eltham Foundation School
Ms A Lloyd - History Teacher and Assistant Achievement Director of Humanities
Ms C Senior - History Teacher and Assistant Head Teacher