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Link to Year 7 In Year Progression Plan
Link to Year 8 In Year Progression Plan
Link to Year 9 In Year Progression Plan

History Trip

Assessment

Year 7: Students will begin to develop the key skills which will be assessed in key stage 3 and beyond. We assess students regularly as they work towards answering enquiry questions. They will be assessed formally twice per year where we are assessing students: historical knowledge, chronological understanding, ability to assess interpretations and historical writing.

Year 8: Students will further develop the key skills which will be assessed in key stage 3 and beyond. We assess students regularly as they work towards answering enquiry questions. They will be assessed formally twice per year where we are assessing students: historical knowledge, chronological understanding, ability to assess interpretations and historical writing.

Year 9: Students will further develop the key skills which will be assessed in key stage 3 and beyond. We assess students regularly as they work towards answering enquiry questions. They will be assessed formally twice per year where we are assessing students: historical knowledge, chronological understanding, ability to assess interpretations and historical writing.

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Useful Links

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/subjects/zk26n39

Useful Revision Guides

Year 7 & 8

Exploring History Student Book 1: Monarchs, Monks and Migrants: Here

Year 9

Exploring History Student Book 2: Here


 

Link to Year 10 In Year Progression Plan
Link to Year 11 In Year Progression Plan
Link to ExamSpecification

Assessment

Year 10: Students will begin working towards the Edexcel GCSE history specification. Students will be formatively assessed with regular exam-style questions within each unit. They will also sit practice exams at two points over the course of the academic year. 

Year 11: At the end of year 11, students will take their GCSEs using the Edexcel GCSE history specification. Students will continue to be formatively assessed with regular exam-style questions and will complete mock exams over the course of the academic year.

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Exam Specification

Migrants to Britain c800-Present (p21)

Early Elizabethan England 1558 – 88 (P26)

Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941 - 58  (p34)

Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918 – 39 (p42)

Topic Book:  Available here

Useful Links

BBC Bitesize: here

Useful revision guides

Edexcel GCSE 9-1 Revision: Available here


 

Link to Year 12 In Year Progression Plan
Link to Year 13 In Year Progression Plan
Link to Exam Specification

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Assessment

Year 12: Students will be assessed in Mock Exams formally as well as exam based homework that will be given for both papers throughout the year.

Year 13:Students will be examined in Mock Exams on both this years’ work (Paper 3), as well as the Year 12 content (Paper 1 and 2). They will also be receiving exam based homework that will be marked. Students will also have an internal coursework assignment due worth 20% of their A Level.


Exam Specification

Year 12

Paper 1: Option 1F: In search of the American Dream: the USA c1917-96  p58

Paper 2: Option 2F.1: India, c1914-48: the road to independence  p60

Year 13

Paper 3: Option 35.1: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763-1914

Paper 4 (Coursework): Cause of the Russian Revolution


Useful Links

Year 12

India books

American Dream books

Year 13

British Empire books

Russian Revolution books


 

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