History

At Platanos College, we believe that a high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that of the wider world. It will inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past. This will equip pupils to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement. History helps pupils to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time. We have designed our curriculum to give pupils a diverse experience through our curriculum. Pupils learn key knowledge as well as key skills in order to support them to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time.

The History department leads on the celebration of events such as History Month in order to give pupils the opportunity to celebrate local and community history. It also gives pupils the opportunity to partake in a range of events such as History tips.

The History departments uses the local community to help develop pupils understanding of History. The department arrange trips to enhance learning for pupils which are linked to the curriculum. Examples of this include trips to Hampton Court Palace and historical walking trips of London. Our History department is also proud to have led on The Anne Frank Ambassador project in Platanos College.

Pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 study historical events, people and changes which complement the texts they study in English lessons. In this way pupils gain a deep contextual understanding of their English texts, as well as the historical periods of time underpinning these works.

Our Key Stage 3 curriculum is designed to extend and deepen pupils chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, so that it provides a well-informed context for wider learning. Pupils learn how to identify significant events, make connections, draw contrasts, and analyse trends within periods and over long arcs of time. Pupils are taught how to think like a historian throughout the Key Stage 3 course.

Pupils study the Eduqas GCSE History qualification for their GCSE. This is a linear qualification and pupils are examined on all topics at the end of Year 11.

The Humanities department helps pupils to develop a number of key skills such as the ability to debate, analyse, evaluate and create judgements based on evidence. This is done using the following key objectives:

• Pupils develop their historical knowledge and understanding and their ability to explain, analyse and evaluate key events, people and changes in each unit of study.
• Pupils develop skills in researching, writing about, discussing and debating different views and interpretations of the main events and people involved in each unit.
• Pupils learn to investigate issues critically using a wide range of historical sources.

The Eduqas History GCSE is assessed as follows:

Resources

SENECA https://senecalearning.com/en-GB/

BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zmsvr82

What careers can I pursue with History?

https://www.planitplus.net/Schools/SubjectCareerList/