History
Our Vision
The History Department at Meadowhead aims to develop historians who are passionate about the past and equipped with skills for the future.
Our History Curriculum is designed to ensure that Meadowhead students:
- Are taught a coherent, balanced chronological narrative that gives them a knowledge and understanding of important periods and events in British and World History.
- Are taught a broad content that includes people of different genders, faiths and cultures in order to reflect the diversity of the school’s population and the diversity of wider British society.
- Are taught content that helps them to understand the modern world and current events and demonstrates how History is relevant to them today.
- Are taught engaging, challenging topics that they will enjoy studying.
- Develop and progress in their historical skills. Key concepts and skills required for GCSE will be integrated into lessons to aid their transition.
- Develop their writing skills and vocabulary.
- Have their needs met whatever their ability, background or educational needs so that it is accessible to all and inspirational for all.
Where will history at Meadowhead take me .....in time, space and place?
“History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.”
Runoko Rashidi
“We are not makers of history.
We are made by history.”Martin Luther King, Jr.
Key stage 3 (7-9)
Please click the hyperlinks to access the knowledge organisers
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Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
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Term 1 |
Topic 1 - How sophisticated were the Anglo-Saxons? Y7: Topic 1 Knowledge organiser Topic 2 - How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest? Y7: Topic 2 Knowledge organiser Topic 3 - How important was religion to people in the Middle Ages? |
Topic 1 - How did the Tudors change the Religion of England forever? Y8: Topic 1 Knowledge organiser Topic 2 - Why did the power of the Monarch decline during the Renaissance? |
Topic 1 - Why did the First World War start in 1914? Y9: Topic 1 Knowledge organiser Topic 2 - How similar were experiences of the Great War? Y9: Topic 2 Knowledge organiser Topic 3 - What was life like under dictators in the 20th century? |
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Assessment |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. Assessment Week 1:Pupils will be tested knowledge and understanding from Term 1.
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. Assessment Week 1:Pupils will be tested knowledge and understanding from Term 1.
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. Assessment Week 1:Pupils will be tested knowledge and understanding from Term 1.
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Term 2: |
Topic 4 - How different was life across the Medieval World? Y7: Topic 4 Knowledge organiser Topic 5 - Did the Black Death bring destruction or opportunity? |
Topic 3 - What do sources reveal about Sheffield’s hidden connections to the Transatlantic trade in enslaved people? Y8: Topic 3 Knowledge organiser Topic 4 - How did the British Empire impact the World? |
Topic 4 - What was the most significant moment of WW2? Y9: Topic 4 Knowledge organiser Topic 5 - What was the Holocaust? |
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Assessment |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. Assessment Week 2:Pupils will be tested knowledge and understanding from Term 2.
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. Assessment Week 2:Pupils will be tested knowledge and understanding from Term 2.
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. Assessment Week 2:Pupils will be tested knowledge and understanding from Term 2.
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Term 3: |
Topic 6 - Why was the power of the Monarchy challenged in the Middle Ages? Y7: Topic 6 Knowledge organiser Topic 7 - How has migration changed Britain over time? |
Topic 5 - How did the Industrial Revolution Transform Britain? Y8: Topic 5 Knowledge organiser Topic 6 - How far did Britain achieve ‘true democracy’ by the 1930s? |
Topic 6 - How did Mao’s policies impact life in China after 1949? Y9: Topic 6 Knowledge organiser Topic 7 - How far was equality achieved by the end of the 20th century? |
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will have complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will have complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. Enquiry Outcome:Pupils will have complete an end of topic writing task for each enquiry. |
Key stage 4 (10-11)
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Year 10 |
Year 11 |
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Term 1 |
Topic 1 - What was medicine like in the medieval period? Topic 2 - How did medicine develop in the Renaissance? Topic 3 - How did medicine develop in the 18th and 19th centuries? Topic 4 - How did medicine develop in the 20th Century?
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Topic 1 - What were the origins of the Cold War? Topic 2 - What were the major crises in the Cold War? Topic 3 - How did Superpower relations change between 1945-91? |
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Assessment |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will a complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. End of Topic Assessment:Pupils will complete an end of topic assessment to practice answering GCSE Exam Questions. Assessment Week 1:Pupils will be tested on Medieval and Renaissance Medicine.
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will a complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. End of Topic Assessment:Pupils will complete an end of topic assessment to practice answering GCSE Exam Questions. Mock Exams:Pupils will be tested on Paper 1 and Paper 3 Exams.
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Topic 5 - Historic Environment: The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18: injuries, treatments and the trenches. Topic 6 - Was the Weimar Republic doomed to fail? |
Topic 4 - How successfully did Elizabeth I rule England? Topic 5 - What challenges did Elizabeth face at home and from abroad? Topic 6 - What was Elizabethan Society like in the Age of Exploration, 1558–88? |
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Assessment |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will a complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. End of Topic Assessment:Pupils will complete an end of topic assessment to practice answering GCSE Exam Questions. Assessment Week 2:Pupils will be tested on Industrial and Modern Medicine.
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Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will a complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. End of Topic Assessment:Pupils will complete an end of topic assessment to practice answering GCSE Exam Questions. Mock Exams:Pupils will be tested on section of Paper 2.
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Topic 7 - Why did Hitler rise to power? Topic 8 - How did Nazi control and the dictatorship develop? Topic 9 - What was life like in Nazi Germany? |
GCSE Revision: Medicine Through Time GCSE Revision: Superpower Relations and the Cold War GCSE Revision: Early Elizabethan England GCSE Revision: Weimar and Nazi Germany |
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Assessment |
Homework Follow up Quiz:Pupils will a complete a Vocab Test and Knowledge Test for each topic following homework submission. End of Topic Assessment:Pupils will complete an end of topic assessment to practice answering GCSE Exam Questions. Mock Exams:Pupils will be tested on Paper 1. Paper 1 – Medicine Through Time and WW1 Medicine |
GCSE Examinations
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Key stage 5 (12-13)
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Year 12 |
Year 13 |
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Term 1 |
1. The United States, 1917-33 2. The Roosevelt years, 1933-45 |
1. The response to apartheid, c1948-59 2. Radicalisation of resistance and the consolidation of National Party power, 1960-68 |
1. The British Navy and the French Wars 1793-1815 2. The British Army and French Wars 1793-1815 |
Coursework: : Reasons for the abolition of the slave trade |
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3. The affluent society, 1945-61 4. The changing political environment, 1961-9 |
3. Redefining resistance and challenges to National Party power, 1968-83 4. The end of apartheid and the creation of the ‘rainbow nation’, 1984-94 |
3. The Crimean War 1985-6 4. The Second Boer War 1899-1902 5. The First World War 1914-18 |
Coursework: Researching and writing coursework on the historiography around the abolition of the slave trade. |
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Assessment |
Trials: Paper 1: Option 1F: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917–96 |
Trials: Paper 2: Option 2F.2: South Africa, 1948–94: from apartheid state to ‘rainbow nation’ |
Trials: Paper 3: Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 |
Coursework submitted: 3000-4000 word essay on What were the justifications for Britain’s involvement in the Slave Trade and how did it work? |
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Term 3: |
5. A decline in confidence, 1968-80 Background to coursework: What were the justifications for Britain’s involvement in the Slave Trade and how did it work? |
6. Historical interpretations: What impact did the Reagan presidency have on the USA, 1981-96? |
Revision |
Revision |
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Assessment |
Assessment week / resit trials: Paper 1 |
Paper 2: |
Resit trials | N/A |
Useful websites
https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-gcses/history-2016.html
https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel-a-levels/history-2015.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zj26n39
https://www.senecalearning.com/
Extra-curricular / enrichment
- A range of Historic environment visits will be offered to narrow the ‘cultural gap’ and enhance cultural capital:
- Peveril Castle
- Battlefields in France and Belgium
- Royal Armouries in Leeds
- Washington DC
- Weekly History Film Club for KS3 to further engage students in the subject.
- Cross-age mentoring for GCSE students to help them with revision, examinations and responsibility.
- One off events and visiting speakers for key commemorations/themes.
Battlefields trip
