History and Politics

Curriculum Team Leader:

Mr Andrew Crease (a.crease@tgs.starmat.uk)

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Key Stage 3 History

The current History syllabus takes a thematic, chronological, approach to the subject from Roman times to Modern day. The vast majority of this is based around British History. All students develop the use of cause and consequence, chronology, significance, source analysis and extended writing as a key part of each year group. Each year group will look at a range of themes connected to these skills and be assessed on each theme.

Year 7

Term 1

• Topic 1: What was it like to be a Roman?
• Topic 2: How free were people in Roman times?

Term 2

• Topic 1: Did people in Britain’s lives get better after the Romans left?
• Topic 2: Were the Middle Ages really ‘measly’?

Term 3

• Topic 1: Did the Tudors really change religion that much?
• Topic 2: Why did it all go wrong for the Stuarts? (and did it really?)

Year 8 

Term 1

• Topic 1: Was Africa uncivilised before the Europeans conquered them?
• Topic 2: Was the British Empire a force for good?

Term 2

• Topic 1: What was the effect of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Africans?
• Topic 2: How did the ancestors of Enslaved Africans fight for Civil Rights after WWII?

Term 3

• Topic 1: Was people’s experience of World War One really that Great?
• Topic 2: How great was the Great War?

Year 9 

Term 1

• Topic 1: Did the American revolution change the world?
• Topic 2: How dangerous to the rest of the world was the Russian Communist Revolution?

Term 2

• Topic 1: What is genocide?

Term 3

• Topic 1: Do we still live in the era of the Cold War?
• Topic 2: Where are we in History now?

Key Stage 4 History

At GCSE level, History follows Edexcel’s 9-1 History Specification which is a wide ranging study of events of a thousand years.  Four units are studied as follows:

Year 10

Anglo Saxon and Norman England, Medicine through time (with a case study of World War one)

Year 11

Cold War 1945-1991, The USA 1956-1975

Key Stage 5 History and politics

History
A level History uses the Edexcel specification.

Year 12 students study Republicanism, Civil War and Francoism in Spain and Germany 1918-1989

Year 13 study of Rebellion and disorder under the Tudor and complete coursework on ‘How popular was the Nazi Party?’

Politics

This course follows Edexcel specification (2017)

It looks at UK Politics, UK Governments and a comparison study of politics in the UK and USA. This will involve looking at democracy and participation, political parties, voting behaviour and the media and Specific political thinking (Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism and Anarchism). In addition it will look at how Governments work and run our daily lives.

Further to this is a study of four political ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism and Feminism

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