History
Head of Department: Mrs S Madden smadden@prsbucks.com
Our goal as a department is to foster a love of History and a curiosity about the past. We are passionate about our subject and our lessons include a wide range of activities and topics to inspire our young Historians!
KS3
In Years Seven and Eight, students study the period from 1066 to the present day. This includes the Norman Conquest of England, life in the Middle Ages, Tudor and Stuart England, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Industrial Revolution, World War One and World War Two, getting the vote, and the Holocaust.
KS4
At GCSE students follow the Edexcel syllabus. Students will study four distinct topics and will sit three separate exams in the summer of Year Eleven. The four topics studied are:
- Medicine through time, c1200 - present
- Early Elizabethan England, 1558-1588
- Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-1939
- Superpower Relations and the Cold War, 1941-1991
In KS4 students can attend the school trip to the Imperial War Museum.
KS5
At A Level students follow the Edexcel syllabus. Whilst a GCSE in History is not a requirement to study A Level History, it is certainly a useful foundation to A Level studies. Students sit three exams in the summer of Year Thirteen and will also complete one piece of coursework. The three exam units are:
- Britain, 1625-1701: conflict, revolution and settlement
- Russia in Revolution, 1894-1924
- Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA, 1850-2009
In KS5 students can attend the school trip to Parliament.
Learning Resources - Click to Expand
The following websites may be of use:
KS3
- www.bbc.co.uk/history
- spartacus-educational.com/
- www.historylearningsite.co.uk
- www.historyonthenet.com
- www.history.co.uk
- www.historyhitpodcast.com
KS4
- www.bbc.co.uk/history
- http://spartacus-educational.com/(a very useful online History encyclopaedia)
- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/(Elizabethan England, Germany and the Cold War topics)
- http://www.johndclare.net/(for Germany and the Cold War topics)
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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HJbI3WeBsGoV-Pp_Wt4mA - Miss Madden's Awesome History Channel.
