HISTORY

Teachers: Miss Alice Livingstone, Mr Tommy Horner and Ms Ruth Till

Department: HUMANITIES

Humanities Subject Leader: Miss Alice Livingstone alivingstone@broadwater.surrey.sch.uk

Homework tasks can be viewed on the showmyhomework website

Introduction and background:

History at Broadwater is an exciting and challenging subject that gets students to think critically about their past. We provide our students a core knowledge which explores diverse histories of Surrey, Britain and the wider world. Our curriculum embeds opportunities to engage with the work of the historian and develop 'second-order thinking' about causation, historical change and significance. Students will analysis historical sources and interpretations and teach our students the skills to form their own critical interpretations of the past. Through all this, we aim to cultivate a love of the subject which supports students in their further study in history and other subjects.

GCSE Exam Specification:

At GCSE level we follow the Edexcel GCSE History (9-1).  

https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/history-2016.html

The main topics covered are;

• Henry VIII and his ministers, 1509 – 1540
• The Cold War, 1941 – 1991
• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 1939
• Medicine in Britain, c.1250 to the present day

Extra curricular learning:

The humanities department is offering a cross-curricular trip to Poland this year for year 10 students. We seek to offer more opportunities for our students but the best support that parents can offer students is to cultivate their love of the subject by encouraging wider reading (non-fiction or historical fiction), watching documentaries or films of historical events for context, taking students to historical sites in our local area: Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Guildford Castle, Godalming Museum, Imperial War Museum in London, Hampton Court Palace. 

Revision and extra learning:

The best support that parents can offer students in the teaching of the history is to take them to places!  We have local history on our doorstep (much of which is free), for example, Guildford Castle, Godalming Museum etc.  If you wish to explore further places such as Hampton Court Palace, the Naval dockyards at Portsmouth and many National Trust properties provide a useful insight to different periods in time.

Please see curriculum maps below for all years.