Curriculum intent:

• Have an ambitious curriculum. The topics we teach are wide-ranging and challenging, which can be seen with tackling substantive concepts such as democracy with the first Year 7 unit on the Roman Republic.
• Have a sequenced curriculum. We have worked hard and with the direction and support of Christine Counsell, have a clear narrative from Year 7 - 13. Concepts are revisited and built upon - for instance democracy in Year 7, followed by the English Civil War and Revolutions in Year 8.
• Have a curriculum that participates within the community - we have ensured that our curriculum engages with questions to encourage critical thinking, such as tackling the narrative of how the First World War has been written in Year 9. We cover topics which are relevant to our democratic, such as Constantinople. We are introducing a topic on Israel and Palestine to Year 9. We have produced this over a year to ensure it isn’t ‘rushed out’ and that all teachers are confident in the resources and delivery.
• We support the school’s literacy focus by celebrating historians. For example, we include extracts from Mary Beard’s SPQR to Year 7s, which is broken down and explained. We continue this with Peter Frankopan and the Silk Roads.
• We plan collaboratively - we discussed the Curriculum Map Draft, and adapted (Romans wasn’t originally the initial focus). We give feedback to each other on resources, we have all created resources within the Key Stage 3, and ensure the topics we create link to others. We have given resources to others to review, such as the CML for Geography.

Exam board: GCSE: AQA GCSE History

A Level: OCR A Level History

Key Stage 3
	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2
Year 7	Roman republic Pompeii	Ancient China Silk Roads
Year 8	Reformation	Black Tudors
Year 9	Causes of WW1	Causes of WW1 Russian Revolution

Key Stage 3
	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
Year 7	Silk roads Constantinople	Constantinople Norman England
Year 8	Civil War and interregnum Witchcraft	Witchcraft Slavery
Year 9	Russian Revolution	Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis

Key Stage 3
	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 7	Norman England Black Death	Black Death
Year 8	American revolution, French Revolution and Haitian revolution	Industrial Revolution
Year 9	Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis Holocaust	Holocaust

 

Key Stage 4
	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2
First year GCSE	America 1920-1973 Opportunity and Inequality	America 1920-1973 Opportunity and Inequality
Second year GCSE	Elizabethan England	Elizabethan England

Key Stage 4
	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
First year GCSE	America 1920-1973 Opportunity and Inequality     Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972 (Cold War)	Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972 (Cold War)
Second year GCSE	Health and the People	Health and the People

Key Stage 4
	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
First year GCSE	Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972 (Cold War)	Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972 (Cold War) Elizabethan England
Second year GCSE	Health and the People Revision

 

Key Stage 5
	Autumn Term 1	Autumn Term 2
Year 12	Russia Pit to Peel	Russia Pit to Peel
Year 13	Nazi Germany Coursework China	China

Key Stage 5
	Spring Term 1	Spring Term 2
Year 12	Russia Pit to Peel	Russia Pit to Peel
Year 13	China	China

Key Stage 5
	Summer Term 1	Summer Term 2
Year 12	Russia Pit to Peel	Russia Pit to Peel
Year 13	China Revision