HISTORY

Curriculum

Year 7

Wilson’s

School
Medieval England e.g. Normans, Black Death, Magna Carta
Tudors e.g. Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, Elizabeth I
Making of the UK e.g. Gunpowder Plot, Civil War, Glorious Revolution, Jacobites

Year 8

Industrial

Revolution e.g. transport, agriculture, working and living conditions
French Revolution e.g. Louis XVI, Napoleon
WW1 e.g. causes, trench conditions, General Haig, Somme, Treaty of Versailles
WW2 e.g. Hitler, Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk, D-Day, Atom Bomb
Holocaust

GCSE (Years 9 – 11)

The

development of the USA, 1929-2000

Changing life in the USA, 1929-2000 e.g. Wall Street Crash, New Deal, WW2, McCarthyism, Kennedy, Johnson, Watergate, Reagan, Clinton, popular culture, youth culture, women etc
Changing attitudes to the race issue in the USA, 1929-2000 e.g. Segregation, Ku Klux Klan, NAACP, Topeka, Little Rock, James Meredith, Montgomery, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X etc
The USA and the wider world, 1929-2000 e.g. Isolationism, Pearl Harbor, Atom Bomb, Korea, Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, USSR, China etc

Russia

in transition, 1914-1924

The causes and impact of the revolutions of 1917
The causes and impact of the Civil War, 1918-1921
The development of the Communist state, 1921-1924

Germany

in transition, c.1929-1947

The rise of the Nazi Party and its consolidation of power, c.1929-1934
Changing life for the German people, 1933-1939
War and its impact on life in Germany, 1939-1947

Controlled Assessment - Investigation into an issue of historical debate or controversy: The effects of war on England in the twentieth century

Educational Visit - Wilson’s History Trip to the battlefields of the Western Front in Belgium and France (Year 10)

A Level

AS History

Unit 1: Britain, 1815-1865
Unit 2: A new Roman Empire? Mussolini’s Italy, 1922-1945

A2 History

Unit 3: British State and People, 1865-1915
Unit 4: Germany in Transition, 1848-1961