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At Oaklands we believe knowledge can be empowering, but merely learning a list of facts is not. Therefore we teach History through Enquiry.
Over the year of study, students will be asked to consider multiple Enquiry questions - big debates about particular times and places in the past. These are questions that both people at the time, and historians since, have debated. Over a series of lessons students will construct their own answers to these questions in an informed and independent way.
Year 7
Year 7
What can we infer from ‘migrant sources’ about the history of the British Isles over a thousand years?
Did Anglo Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?
How Islamic did Medieval Muslims believe their science to be?
Why was the Church so central to the lives of Medieval England?
How powerful were Medieval Queens able to be?
When was it safest to speak your mind in Tudor England?
Year 8
Year 8
Why did England expand their empire in the 16th and 17th century?
How similar were the Mansas in Mali to the Obas in Benin?
Was Charles the architect of his own downfall?
How far were the enslaved able to resist?
What were the Suffrage campaigners fighting for?
Why have people disagreed over Cromwell's statue?
Year 9
Year 9
Did the world sleepwalk into war in 1914?
Who cares about the Russian Revolution?
What were the typical experiences of Partition?
Who should shoulder the responsibility for the Holocaust?
Why are the stories of 1971 so difficult to tell?
Year 10
Year 10
Paper 2 : Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010
Did the Normans really affect Britain 'more than any other' group in the Middle Ages?
Why were some Early Modern migrants welcomed with open arms while others were treated poorly?
Was the British Empire the main reason for Migrants coming to Britain in the Industrial Era?
What challenges did migrants face when trying to make Modern Britain their home?
Paper 3A : The Impact of the British Empire 1688-1730
How far was Great Britain united by 1730?
Why did Britain become an economic powerhouse by 1730?
How were the lives and ideas of people shaped by Empire?
Paper 3B: Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration - Spitalfields
How have migrants before us shaped Spitalfields?
Year 11
Year 11
Paper 1B : Germany 1925-1955
How and why did Hitler and the Nazis go from Fringe to Fuhrer?
Did the Nazis really create their vision of a 'Volksgemeinschaft'?"
What were the legacies of the war?
Paper 1A : International Relations 1918-1975
Who or what was to blame for World War Two?
Who or what was to blame for Cold War tensions
How and Why have Historians disagreed over Appeasement?
How and Why have Historians disagreed over the causes of the Cold War?
Year 12 and 13
Year 12 and 13
AQA History
Component 1H : Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855-1964 (40%)
Component 2s : The Making of Modern Britain 1951-2007 (40%)
Component 3 : Jamaican & British History 1760 - 1870 (20%)
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