History

History is a popular and highly valued GCSE. The course we teach offers a broad coverage of British, European and world history.

Lessons are engaging, lively and use a variety of learning approaches and teaching styles. The course builds upon pupils’ knowledge and skills gained in Key Stage 3 and operates as a stepping-stone to further study at A-Level and beyond.

While you’re studying History, we’ll be working to enhance your abilities as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds, developing the ability to ask relevant questions about the past and to investigate them critically.  You also learn to organise and communicate your historical knowledge and understanding in creative and different ways, whilst reaching substantiated judgements.

We study ‘Germany 1890-1945, Democracy and Dictatorship’; ‘Health and the People, c1000 to the present day’; ‘Elizabethan England, c1568-1603’; and ‘The Cold War 1950-1975’, focusing on conflict and tension in Asia.