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History

At Cardinal Newman Catholic High School, our aim is to foster a love of History and an engagement with the past through thought-provoking and inspiring lessons. We follow a chronological pattern of study to help students understand the present and how social, political, religious and economic conditions from the past have impacted on their lives and shaped the world we live in.

We believe that knowledge of religious change, customs and institutions is key to enlightening and transforming students’ understanding of how the past can, and does, impact the present and the future.

This helps students to develop important evaluation skills which support their wider learning across the school and beyond.

Cardinal Newman Catholic High School Curriculum Overview
History 
 GCSE AQA History 8145   
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11

 

Autumn

The Impact of the Roman, Saxon and Viking invasions on Britain. 

Britain in 1500-1700.  

The Tudor period.  

The twentieth century world:   

The First World War:  

Conflict and tension, 1894–1918  

  • The causes of the First World War  

  • The First World War: stalemate  

 Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day, thematic study.  

Medicine stands still continued.  

Parts two, three and four interleave in how they are taught, the areas of focus are as follows:  

Disease/ Surgery/Public health  

 Part two: the beginnings of change  

Part three: A revolution in medicine.  

Part four: Modern medicine  

 

Spring

Medieval period: 

War and conflict in the Medieval period. 

  The Stuart period and the English Civil war.  

The Hanoverian succession and the creation of the United Kingdom.  

The rise of dictatorships in the inter war period.  

The Causes of WWII.  

  • Ending the war.  

Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy and dictatorship.  

  • Germany and the growth of democracy:  

  • Germany and the Depression 

Elizabethan England, c1568–1603 

 

Summer

Problems facing medieval kings and a brief  depth study Health and medicine in the Medieval times. 

  In what ways did Britain change 1750-1900?  

British empire and its role in the transatlantic slave trade.  

The Holocaust.  

Changing Russian Empires c.1880-1989  

  • The experiences of Germans under the Nazis  

2A Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day, thematic study.  

  • Medicine stands still  

  


 

Staffing

Mr. M. Russell (Head of Department) 

Ms. S. Faulder 

Ms. H. Hodgeson 

 

 

 


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