HISTORY

Staff

Head of Department: Miss L Duffy

Teacher/ Head of Year 9: Mr G Mobey

Teacher: Mr P Moore

Teacher: Mrs L Sullivan

Teacher: Mrs C Newton

Intent

At Selly Park, we wish to develop confident, skilled and literate historians through the delivery of a broad, balanced and aspirational curriculum, which removes any potential barriers to learning. We aim to deliver high quality and engaging history lessons characterised by inspirational teaching in a vibrant learning environment. Within our lessons we strive to embed key character virtues and to enhance our pupils’ cultural capital through our curriculum choices. We want to build upon our students’ prior learning to develop a love for the subject through learning about Britain’s past and that of the wider world. We want our pupils to realise that the past is gone and history is constructed and contested. We want our pupils to develop a range of historical skills through our chronological spiral curriculum and support them to become informed citizens ready for their next stage of education, training or employment.


Curriculum Overview

Key Stage 3


In year 7, students are taught in ability groups. They have 2 hours of History each week. The subject content includes the impact of the Saxons on Britain and a range of key events and changes in the Medieval and Tudor periods. We also look at Mughal India and the beginnings of industrialisation in Britain.


In year 8, students are taught in ability groups. They have one hour of History each week. They will continue to develop their skills through subject content which covers the period from the beginning of industrialisation to the end of the First World War. In addition, students also study an aspect of local History.


In year 9, students continue to be taught in ability groups. They have two hours of History per week. In year 9, students will be taught some GCSE topics as they cover the period from the end of the First World War, up until the outbreak of the Second World War. They will also focus on Germany from 1890-1945 and study the Holocaust.


Key Stage 4

GCSE History is a very popular option with 80-100 pupils opting to take the AQA 8145.


The options studied are:


Britain, Health and the People


Elizabethan England 1568-1603


Conflict and Tension 1918-1939


Germany 1890-1945


Pupils at both GCSE and Key Stage 3 are regularly assessed and targets are set and reviewed so that pupils can continue to make further progress.


Students in all year groups are regularly set homework to enrich and extend their learning beyond what is covered in the classroom and to encourage creativity and independent thinking.


Exam Board

AQA


Extra Curricular activities

History revision and homework clubs are provided by the staff after school regularly and on some Saturdays.


In year 7 there is an Archaeology club.


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NAVIGATION

CONTACT

Selly Park Girls' School

5 Selly Park Road

Birmingham

B29 7PH

Tel: 0121 472 1238

Email: enquiry@sellyparkgirls.org

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