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History
What will your child study?
In Year 7 the course concentrates on Medieval Britain, including topics such as:
- 1066 and the Norman Conquest
- The Medieval Church and the Thomas Becket Crisis
- The Crusades
- King John and Magna Carta
- English Attempts to control Wales and Scotland
- The Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt
- The Hundred Years War
In Year 8 the course moves on into the 16th and 17th centuries and covers developments such as:
- The Wars of the Roses and the Tudor Accession
- Henry VIII’s Succession Problems
- Henry VIII and the Break with Rome
- Religious Strife in mid-Tudor England
- Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots
- Elizabeth I’s war against Spain and the Spanish Armada
- The Stuart Accession and the Gunpowder Plot
- The Causes and Course of the Civil Wars in the mid 17th century
- Restoration England: the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
How will they be assessed ?
Pupils are assessed by marked homework, termly common assessments and end of year exams. Pupils are introduced to the types of questions they will encounter at IGCSE.
There are also opportunities for less traditional forms of assessment through, for example, co-operative group work on projects such as designing historical board games.
