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History Click here to return to Our Curriculum Key Stage 3 Year 7 1066-1603 A study of rulers and characters in Medieval times including William the Conqueror, King John and Thomas Becket. What life was like in the towns and villages during those days looking specifically at The Black Death. How and where people travelled at home and abroad. Year 8 1603-1901 A study of the English Civil War, French Revolution and Chartism. A look at the Great Fire of London, Chinese dynasties as well as American Indians. We also cover the Industrial Revolution and its famous engineers(some of whom our Houses are named after) and crime including the start of the Police service and Jack the Ripper. The final unit of work is about the British Empire and the slave trade, explorers e.g. Captain Cook and the development of steam. Year 9 1901-2011 A look at the Suffragette Movement and World War 1and 2 including the nuclear bomb. Characters such as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X, Lenin are studied as well as the problems in Ireland. Students also find out about how lives have changed over the last century both here and the USA concluding with was it better to be a child in 1918, 1955 or 2011. Key Stage 4 GCSE History Students follow the OCR Full Course GCSE Unit 1 - Medicine and Health through time:- Medicine and Superstition - Witch Doctors & Mummies Medicine in War - Roman, Crimean, WW1 and WW2 Sewage and Surgery - Blood Bones and Scalpels! Individual, Genius and Inventions - Vaccines, Anaesthetics, Antiseptics, x-rays, DNA, Penicillin, Florence Nightingale. Unit 2 - The American West Facts, Fantasy and Frontiers How Wild was the West? - Outlaws, Savages, Gunslingers and Gangs Pioneers - Mormons and Miners; the Gold Rush Beef Bonanza - Steers, Stampedes and Stetsons; Cattlemen and Cowboys The Plains Wars - Negotiate and Exterminate? Controlled Assessment (25%) This may be on local history or a modern conflict. Examples of possible tasks: Investigate and evaluate how a local site is represented in a guide book Why has the issue of Northern Ireland been so difficult to settle? There are 2 exam papers: Paper 1 - 2 hours - 45% Questions on Medicine and The American West Paper 2 - 1 hour 30 minutes - 30% Source Work on Medicine Click here to return to Our Curriculum
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