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History

Staff

Head of Department Subject Teacher
Ms Cloughan Mr Scott

 

Key Stage 3
Year 8 Year 9 Year 10
  • What is History? - learning the skills to be an historian
  • Norman Ireland - who were the Normans, where did they come from, and how did they change Ireland?
  • Mediaeval life - death, disease and crime and punishment
  • The Reformation and Henry VIII
  • The Plantation of Ulster
  • Rivalry and Conflict in Ireland
  • Black Peoples of America
  • 20th Century
  • World War 1
  • Treatment of the Jews - the Holocaust
  • Causes and Consequences of partition

In the first three years at Nendrum College pupils will receive three periods each week (1 hour 45 minutes). Pupils can then opt to study History at GCSE level.

 

Key Stage 4
Unit 1:

Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–45

Changing Relations: Northern Ireland and its Neighbours, 1920–49 

 External written examination 60%
Unit 2: International Relations, 1945–2003 External written examination 40%

At KS4 our pupils follow the CCEA GCSE History Specification. This specification aims to encourage pupils to be enthusiastic about studying History; develop effective and independent learners with enquiring minds; develop the ability to ask relevant and significant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims using a range of sources; develop an awareness of how the past has been represented, interpreted and given significance for different reasons and purposes; and develop the ability to effectively communicate historical knowledge and understanding in a range of ways, argue a case, make judgements and reach substantiated conclusions.