Key Stage Three

Here the English National Curriculum is broadly followed.

Year 7: The Romans and Mediaeval Realms
Year 8: The Making of the UK and Black Peoples of the Americas
Year 9: The Industrial Revolution and the Twentieth Century

There are three projects carried out to develop investigative child centred learning and presentation.  They are:

Year 7 – Pompeii
Year 8 – Hardwick Hall
Year 9 – The Great War 1914-18

IGCSE

We follow the Edexcel IGCSE.  This is based up modern world history and is a showcase for understanding how problems today are often the result of events in the past.

Students are encouraged to think through issues for themselves.

A Level

At this level we concentrate on the modern history of the United States of America.  We examine how it became the biggest superpower in the world and then consider how it has used this power since World War 2.

One unit focuses on British history since 1945.

Head of the Department: Mr. John Murphy