“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” Winston ChurchillHistory
Curriculum Overview History students engage critically with societies of the past, analyse the causes and consequences of key historical events, evaluate the utility of historical artefacts and sources, as well as reach factually-substantiated, valid and balanced judgements. Students should expect to be challenged in their lessons and in their set homework pieces; we believe that the study of history is key to the development of every individual. The History Film club has a dedicated following. Each week we discuss and watch a number of age appropriate films or TV series’. Digital access to our curriculum is available to all students via ‘Show My Homework’. This along with the department’s Twitter account are popular with both students and parents.
Knowledge and Wisdom in History
Manshead CE Academy believes that a high-quality history education will help students gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It should inspire student’s curiosity to know more about the past. Our department equips students to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. We believe that History helps students to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.
Curriculum and Teaching and Learning Overview
At Manshead CE Academy, we believe that the study of History is more than a list of facts and dates. We aim to provide our students not only with a breadth of knowledge and understanding of the past, but to enable our students to think critically about the world around them. Most importantly, we expect our students to ask questions about the past, the present and the future. Without the ability to question the actions of others in history, we may repeat the same mistakes of the past. Students will study a wide range of local, national and international history in their lessons.
Learning beyond the classroom
Learning beyond the classroom is something the History department feels passionately about. Over the years we have run many trips to many valuable places, each allowing students to develop their love and understanding of History as a subject but also as an experience. Visits have included Berlin, Bolsover Castle, Bletchley Park, the Tower of London as well as the First World War Battlefields in Belgium.
Curriculum Overview The One Hundred year war, Joan of Arc, The medieval trial system & the Wars of the Roses including the English Civil War, Cromwell in power, Restoration,the Great Plague & the Glorious Revolution. including the Slave trade triangle, Capture, Slave Auctions,Slave life,Punishments & abolition. The Treaty of Versailles & the Great Depression The Rise of Adolf Hitler, Appeasement, Britain preparing for war and Dunkirk. 1509 – 1529 1529 – 1540 & the Reformation & it’s impact 1529 – 1540 Medicine in Medieval Britain C1500 – c1700 The Medical Renaissance in England Medicine in 18th – and 19th century Britain Medicine in modern Britain Injuries, treatments and the trenches 1918 – 1929 Hitler’s rise to power 1919 – 1933 1933 – 1939 Life in Nazi Germany 1933 – 1939 1941 – 1958 Cold War crises 1958 – 1970 1970 – 1991 Nixon & protest Watergate
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Year 7
The Norman Conquest and consolidation of power
The role of Christianity in Medieval England
Life in Medieval England: including, how people spent their spare time, origins of football, music & fashion.
The role of Women in Medievel society & the Black Death
Magna Carta, the formation of England’s first Parliament, The Peasants Revolt & England’s relationship with it’s neighbours.
England at War:
Year 8
Tudor England & the Religious Rolercoaster
Stuart England
The Slave Trade
The Industrial Revolution & Jack the Ripper
The Build up to WWI & Warfare during WWI
Why did WWI end?
Year 9
Why did WWII start?
The Home Front during WWII
Pearl Harbor, Bletchley Park, Enigma & D-Day
Holocaust, And the end of WWII
Arab Israeli Conflict
The Post War World
Year 10
Henry VIII & Wolsey
Henry VIII & Cromwell
C1250 – c1500
C1700 – c1900
C1900 – present
The British sector of the Western Front, 1914 – 1918
Year 11
The Weimar Republic
Nazi Control & dictatorship
The origins of the Cold War
The end of the Cold War
Revision
Exams
Year 12
Politics, Society and Economy of the USA 1917-1932
The Presidency of Franklin D.Roosevelt
The Truman and Eisenhower Presidencies
The Kennedy and Johnson Presidencies
America in the 1970s
The impact did the Reagan presidency on the USA in the years 1981–96
Year 13
Edward VI
Mary
Mary
Elizabeth
Revision
Exams
Johnson & The Great Society
Johnson & the Civil Rights Movement
Nixon’s Foreign Policy &
Ford & Carter
Revision
Exams
