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History At Meden...

The Department offers a wide range of courses across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5. Those courses are:

Key Stage 3

Year 7:  This year’s work focuses on the Middle Ages. Topics include:

• Norman Invasion and the Battle of Hastings – assessment on knowledge
• Castles and Cathedrals – assessment on using sources
• The Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt – assessment on interpretations

Year 8: This year’s work is focused around two themes (i) revolution (ii) lives of ‘ordinary’ people. Topics include:

• Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War – assessment on interpretations
• French Revolution – assessment on knowledge
• Slavery  - assessment on using sources
• Industrial Revolution – working & living conditions

Year 9: This year’s work focuses upon World Wars I & II and a non British/European history. Topics include:

• Trench Warfare (World War I) – assessment on sources
• Adolf Hitler – assessment on interpretations
• The Holocaust – assessment on knowledge
• Native Indians of North America

Key Stage 4

Two courses are offered leading to a G.C.S.E. Modern World Course which looks at history in the C20 – includes topics on:

• Events leading to World Wars I and II
• Britain in the First World War  
• The Cold War to 1949
• Germany 1918-1939
• USA 1919 – 1941

Local and Medieval History This course has a vocational dimension. Topics include:

• Local History of Warsop Vale and the coal industry
• Saxon, Viking and Norman Invasions
• The marketing of Robin Hood
• Differing representations of King John

Key Stage 5

• Year 12 examine (i) Irish History C19 (ii) Political career of Robert Peel (iii) Louis XIV’s foreign policy
• Year 13 examine (i) Political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli (ii) the Ascendancy of  France 1610-1715 (iii) a free choice subject piece of coursework