History

Next year, pupils will be introduced to a new the thematic study, Women in History. We will analyse various key figures spanning over 2000 years of history, assessing their impacts and forming rounded pictures utilising interpretations.

In Y9 pupils continue chronologically where they ended Y8, with a small period study on the inter-war period in Germany, investigating Hitler's ascension to dictator and how WW2 began. They will then do a depth study on WW2 and finally a study of the largest genocide, facilitated by WW2, the Holocaust.

By emphasising the range of roles that pupils of history take up in society, we provide a route to academic success and offer transferable skills that will equip all pupils to thrive in the future. Within this we support students “write like a historian” using a PEE structure, with Y8 & Y9 having this scaffolded through modelling and support grids. The intent is to strip these away and to increase student confidence, resilience and independence with their technical writing, preparing them for future study.