The intent of the History Curriculum at Co-Op Academy Bebington is to:

• Allow students to understand the causes of what, how and why the world has changed from Medieval times to Present day.
• Explore History on a global, national and local scale.
• Enable students to foster a love and enthusiasm for learning about the past.
• To provide a challenging and interesting curriculum to engage students.
• Allow students through studying History, to develop tolerance, understanding and empathy for humanity.
• To investigate historical issues.
• To study a wide range of historical enquiries.
• To embed historical knowledge.
• Develop historical skills.
• To develop historical vocabulary within the context of the period studied.
• Provide opportunities to recall historical information and make connections.
• Enable students to question and engage in critical thinking.
• Participate in intellectual argument.
• Construct written and oral reasoned explanations.
• Explore and analyse different historical interpretations of the past.
• Understand continuities and differences of the past compared to the present.
• Develop inference skills and draw conclusions from both primary and secondary sources and articulate their findings confidently.
• To consider the impact historical events have had on the world past and present.
• Allow students to demonstrate their knowledge through a range of different approaches, strategies, teaching and learning methods.
• Develop literacy and interpersonal skills enabling our students to become effective communicators in a variety of situations.
• Through the focused study of GCSE History, enable students to foster transferable skills for either the workplace or further education.
• Ensure the History curriculum develops a growth mind set for students, so that independence will thrive.

Staff Members

Ms Barnes – Curriculum Coordinator

Mrs Nolan

Mr Gibson

Mr McDonald

Year 7

• What has been the impact of migration upon Britain before 1066?
• How did William take control of England and what was the impact 1066-1087?
•  Why was the Black Death a significant event in Britain 1348?
• To what extent was the power of England’s monarchs challenged by the church and the people 1154-1533 ? 

Year 8

• Why did the English feel they had to kill their king in 1649?
• Why was it so difficult to abolish slavery?
• How far did the agricultural, social, economic ,industrial and transport changes in the period 1750-1900 amount to progress for the people of Britain ? Historic environment study.
• How did the British Empire develop and why was British rule in India so controversial 1492-1900?
• How much of an impact has migration had on the development of Britain since 1066 to the 21st century? 

Year 9

• How far were the lives of ordinary people, as well as soldiers, throughout the British Empire affected by the events of World War One 1914-1918?
• How far did American society change in the 20th century 1919-1933? 
• How similar were Stalin’s. Hitler’s and Mao’s dictatorships 1929-1979?
• Evaluate the most significant events of World War Two 1939-1945. 
• How effectively have people campaigned for equal rights in the 20th and 21st centuries?

• GCSE History
• Exam Board: Pearson Edexcel
• Thematic study and the historic environment:
• Medicine 1250-present Day and the British Sector of the Western Front: 1914-1918: injuries, treatment and the trenches.
• Henry VIII and his ministers 1509-1540.
• Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941–91
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

• A Level History
• OCR
• The Tudors focussing on the reigns of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I 
• Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919–1963
• Civil Rights in the USA 1865–1992
• Coursework: independent study.

• Higher Education/College/University
• Possible careers: Teaching, Journalism, Human Resources and working with people.