History

History at Court Moor is for everyone. It is designed to encourage curiosity and prepare students to become independent thinkers equipped with the appropriate knowledge as well as an ability to use it. Every student who studies History at KS3 will leave with a well rounded understanding of the past and hopefully wish to continue this study either at GCSE or as a personal interest.

Key Stage 3

History throughout Key Stage 3 is based on the chronological progression of both British and international events. Based upon progressing time periods, themes of politics, rebellion, development and strife are met and revisited. Information is always provided for the student as an individual to reach their own conclusion and skills to be introduced. As students progress concepts are revised with further examples and more challenging contexts such as race, gender, civil rights as well as moral complexities.

Treating knowledge as the foundation History introduces and works on skills to help the student become an independent thinker able to articulate themselves in any situation.

• Change and Continuity – identifying over time what has differed and what has remained the same.
• Cause and Consequence – identifying factors that contribute to change and the result that change had
• Significance – to be able to comment on why something is ‘worthy of being remembered’
• Source Analysis – how to approach a source, be it written or a picture, how such information can be used and how to communicate this
• Historiography – how perspective of a single event can change over time and why different historians may have different views over the same thing
• Producing an Argument – communicating an answer that is both clear and convincing

In Key Stage 3 students are introduced to the Roman time period and progress to the end of the Cold War in Year 9. Different thematic studies of medicine and migration are placed that compare different eras in civilisation.

Key Stage 4

In Key Stage 4 students follow the Edexcel History course, which is composed of 4 units, forming 3 separate exam papers.

• Paper 1 – Thematic study and historic environment
  • Crime and punishment in Britain, c1000–present
    • The study of laws, crimes, law enforcement and attitudes in the following time periods
      • Medieval c1000-1500,
      • Early Modern 1500-1700,
      • Industrial 1700-1900,
      • Modern 1900-present.
  • Historic Environment - Whitechapel, c1870–c1900: crime, policing and the inner city
    • A depth study of Whitechapel and the Jack the Ripper murders
• Paper 2 – Period study and British depth study
  • Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c.1060-88
    • Anglo-Saxon society and events leading up to the events of 1066
    • The events of 1066 and the claimants to the throne of England
    • The actions of King William the Conqueror and his consolidation of power
  • Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91
    • The formation of ‘East’ and ‘West’ power blocks at the end of WW2
    • The causes of tension between two sides
    • Efforts to relieve tension and the end of the Cold War
• Paper 3 – Modern Depth Study
  • Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39
    • The formation of a democratic Weimar Republic following WW1
    • Efforts to secure democracy
    • Hitler’s actions to gain power
    • Nazi Germany and actions to secure power

Suggested revision guides can be found on the following link:

https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/secondary-books/gcse?sort=best_selling&quantity=36&page=1&view=grid¤tFilter=Subject_30&filter_subject=Subject_30

Court Moor History department subscribes to ‘classroom 42’ in which all students have an account. This is a source of revision resources, exam questions as well as AI marked assessment.

https://classroom42.com/login/