The syllabus provides opportunities for pupils to study history in breadth and depth, across a road span of time and diversity of cultures:
Key Stage 3
Year 7
What is History? (Module 1)
The Roman Empire (Module 20)
Medieval Realms (Modules 3 to 6)
Year 8
The Making of the UK (Modules 1 to 4)
The Indigenous Peoples of North America (Module 5)
Local History Project (Module 6)
Year 9
Britain 1750 to 1900 (Modules 1 and 2)
The Twentieth Century World (Modules 3 to 6)
Assessment:
A range of assessments depending on the nature of the module
Key Stage 4:
GCSE History (Schools History Project)
Medicine Through Time and Britain 1815-51
Assessment:
Two final examinations and two pieces of coursework:
Examinations
Paper 1 45% Medicine Through Time and Britain 1815-51 2 hours
Paper 2 30% Medicine Through Time - Specified topic 1½ hours
Coursework: 25%
Assignment 1 History Around Us (Housesteads Fort)
Assignment 2 Modern World Study (Northern Ireland)
Educational Visits
In Year 10 pupils will visit Housesteads Fort to carry out the personal
investigation required by the History Around Us assignment. In Year
11 pupils will visit the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds to enhance
their study of Medicine Through Time.
Qualifications in history can lead to obvious, careers such as museum work, archaeology, conservation and history teaching along with the less obvious careers including law, architecture, civil service, banking, journalism, economics, social work, publishing, human resource management, marketing, armed forces and the police.
Post 16:OCR Medieval Route
Module 1 Either The Normans in England 1066-87 or The First Crusade and its Origins
Module 2 England 1042-1100
Module 3 Europe 1046-1250
Module 4 Charlemagne
Module 5 Government of England 1066-1216
Module 6 Independent
Investigation (Coursework)
