Years 7, 8 & 9

(1st, 2nd & 3rd Forms)

Taught in their forms.
The content covered shadows the National Curriculum without being tied to its assessment patterns.
Written work is central, and pupils work in an exercise book, but oral, audio, film, video and other material is also used.
Field trips to Rochester and the Imperial War Museum are embedded in the syllabus, as is an extended piece of work for each year.

Years 10 & 11

(4th & 5th Forms)

Taught in sets with setting determined by their other subject choices. The number of sets is dependent on the number opting for the subject. Currently there are three sets each year of between 10 and 20 pupils each.

Years 12 & 13

(6th Forms)

Two sets in each year, each taught by two different members of the department.

Examination Boards:

GCSE:

Pupils take the Modern World Syllabus of OCR 1937.

Topics include international relations 1919 - 1989, Britain 1906-18, Germany, the Cold War & coursework on the USA.

For details, use the menubar for GCSE.

A-Level:

Students in the Lower Sixth are studying for the AS of EDEXCEL, specification 8264; in the Upper Sixth for EDEXCEL A2, specification 9264.
They are doing a coursework element on the causes of the Great War, and examined modules on the Bolshevik revolution in Russia 1917-29 and the Emancipation of Women c1880 – 1918.
The A2 element includes a personal study as well as another element of coursework (on Russia from the 1860s to the 1960s), and an examined module on Nazi Germany.

For details, click on the AS/A2 tab on the menubar.

 The essential elements of History studied remain the same throughout all levels - argument, assessment of source material and interpretation of people's lives and preoccupations in the past – but the newer A Level assessment pattern offers an exciting variety of tasks.