History
Year 8 History
The study of History in the Middle School aims to achieve two main objectives; firstly to give students the ability to understand the human experience through time at a local, national and international level in order to explain why the modern world is as it is. Secondly to provide its students with important skills such as source analysis, thinking critically and writing descriptively; skills which can be used at a cross curricular level.
Enrichment
Trip to IWM
Battlefields trip
Autumn Term
Period Study: Industry and Empire 1750-1900
The Industrial Revolution
Working lives of men, women and children
Peterloo massacre 1819
Colonisation of Australia
Victorian family life
Spring Term
Period Study: Understanding the Modern World
Road to First World War
Impact of the First World War on people’s lives
Life and death on the Western Front
Life on the home front
Case study: How should we remember Churchill?
Life during the Blitz
Case study: The Holocaust
The quest for equal rights
The 9/11 attacks and their consequences
Summer Term
Thematic study: Migration to Britain through time
Early migration 450-1066
Late Medieval Period migration 1066-1500
Early Modern migration 1500-1700
Industrial period migration 1700-1900
Modern migration 1900-present
