History
Curriculum Intent Statement
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
Key Stage 3
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?
Key Stage 4
- 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
Key Stage 5
- 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.
Career Opportunities/Pathways
- Higher Education/College/University
- Possible careers: Teaching, Journalism, Human Resources and working with people.