OPTION: History

GCSE History involves the study of the past in order to discover what happened and explain why it happened.  

Our study of Crime and Punishment allows students to examine a theme over a long period of time in order to identify and explain similarities, differences and significant changes.  

The unit on the American West helps students understand the development of the world’s dominant economic and cultural superpower and how it became the country it is today.  

The study of Early Elizabethan England immerses the students in a critical period of our country’s history and helps them understand in depth a period that is often studied superficially at Key Stage 3.  

Finally, studying Weimar and Nazi Germany allows students to understand the nature of totalitarian rule and explain how such an event came to happen.  

All the units help students develop skills in analysis and evaluation of source material, debating skills and building an argument, as well as understanding key historical concepts such as causation, significance and change.