1. GCSE History

2. What topics will be studied?
The new syllabus includes four topics covering a mixture of medieval and modern history.
Some of them span large periods of time, others focus on much narrow periods in depth.

3. Course Outline Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Autumn Term WW1 WW2
Early Elizabethan England
Weimar and Nazi Germany
Spring Term
Medicine in Britain 1250-present
Superpower relations and the Cold War
Revision for exams
Summer term

4. Topic 1: Medicine in Britain 1250-Present
This is a thematic study that requires students to understand change and continuity across a long sweep of history. Among key periods studied will be:
The Medical Renaissance in England
Medicine in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain
Medicine in Modern
Britain 1900-Present

5. Historical Environment
Within this unit there will be a study of an ‘Historical Environment’ which will be linked to the overall thematic study and focuses on a specific site and its historical context:
The British Sector of the Western front : Surgery and Treatment
Students will be expected to use a variety of sources to understand a range of topics including;
Conditions requiring medical treatment
Conditions in the trenches
The effects of new technology such as gas
Developments in surgery and medicine

6. Topic 2: Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588
Queen, Government and Religion
Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad
Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration

7. Topic 3: Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-1991
1.The origins of the Cold War
2.The Cold War Crises,
3.The End of the Cold War,

8. Topic 4:Modern Depth Study Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-1939
1. The Weimar Republic
2. Hitler’s Rise to Power
3. Nazi Control and
Dictatorship
4. Life in Nazi Germany

9. Teaching and learning methods

10. Reading and note-making

11. Essay-writing

12. Discussion

13. Project work

14. Presentations and debates

15. Assessment
Pupils sit three exam papers at the end of year 11. There is no coursework/controlled assessment.
Paper One – 75 minutes, worth 30% (Medicine in Britain)
Paper Two – 105 minutes, worth 40% (Early Elizabethan England and Superpower Relations)
Paper 3 – 75 minutes, worth 30% (Weimar and Nazi Germany)

16. Exam questions
Explain two consequences of the Arms Race. (8 marks)

17. Explain two of the following:
The importance of the Berlin Crisis of for the development of the Cold War.
The importance of the events in Hungary in 1956 for the development of the Cold War.
The importance of the Truman Doctrine (1947) in the development of the Cold War.
(16 marks)

18. Write a narrative account analysing the main events in superpower rivalry in Cuba in the years
You may use the following in your answer:
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
You must also use information of your own

19. Year 9 Battlefields Trip to Ypres

20. Year 10 Berlin trip

21. Why choose history? Enjoyment
Great for writing skills - will help with English
Learn how to construct balanced arguments
Study a wide variety of history with different periods to appeal to everyone
Greater understanding of the world you live in
You know you want to go on and study history/law/journalism at A level/university

22. Not because… My brother/sister did it My best friend is doing it
I really like my history teacher
I don’t know what else to pick

23. How can you help?
Organisation
Learning/testing
Homework