Intent
The History curriculum at Barnwell School develops our students’ ability to understand and have knowledge of the History of Britain and the wider world. The curriculum is sequenced in a chronological narrative of change and continuity in the History of Britain. Along with the exposition to knowledge, the curriculum offers students opportunities to grasp and engage in historical enquiry. Students will understand the process of change, to see how we arrived ‘here’ and help them to make sense of the present. History allows us to understand how the world we live in was shaped by events in the past and consider events of today in a different way.
At KS3 our History curriculum is aimed to spark students' interest and enthusiasm for History and equip them with the skills and knowledge they need to write, think and debate like a historian. We want to inspires student’s curiosity to ask questions and know more about Britain’s past, and that of the wider world. We want students to challenge perceptions about the world around them by the end of the KS 3 curriculum. It is designed with a chronological narrative in mind, that allows students to examine change and continuity over time.
The aim for our curriculum at GCSE is for our students to construct arguments and support them to become analytical citizens who can question human motivation and society with skill and confidence. Through our GCSE curriculum we want our students to learn how to construct arguments and balance evidence alongside knowledge of historical chronology. Students are assessed through three GCSE exam papers at the end of Year 11.
Students follow the Edexcel syllabus.
They are studying:
• Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches.
• Henry VIII and his Ministers
• The American West 1835-1895
• Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
The aim of the A Level curriculum at Barnwell is to engage and develop critical thinking Historians. It allows students gain a deeper understanding of the past through political, social, economic and cultural perspectives. The course is sequenced into the following, Component 1: Breadth study, and we have chosen the Tudors: England, 1485–1603. Component 2: Depth study Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917–1953. This option provides for the study in depth of the coming and practice of communism in Russia. Students will also complete a Historical Investigation based on Civil Rights America. Students follow the AQA syllabus.
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